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US-ManifestDestiny11
Study Guide for Chapter 11 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who founded a fur-trading outpost at the mouth of the Columbia River? | John Jacob Astor |
| The Second Great Awakening caused which two missionaries to go to Oregon in 1836? | Marcus and Narcissa Whitman |
| What disease caused many Indian children to die, so the Cayuse Indians sought revenge by killing the whites around the Whitman Mission? | Measles |
| If you were starting out on the Oregon Trail, what city would you leave from? | Independence, Missouri |
| If you were starting out on the Oregon Trail, when would you begin the trip? | Late Spring |
| What were the five challenges for travelers on the Oregon Trail? | Shortages of food, water, and supplies; Rough weather; Natural barriers like rivers and mountains; Accidents; Cholera and diseases |
| Where did the Oregon Trail end? | Willamette Valley |
| How did most people travel the 2000 miles of the Oregon Trail? | Walked |
| What split from the Oregon Trail in southern Idaho? | California Trail |
| What was the key to getting to California? | Getting there before the first snow hit the Sierra Nevada mountains |
| What was the name of the group who did not make it over the Sierra Nevada mountains and had to spend the winter in the mountains? | Donner Party |
| The Santa Fe Trail connected what two cities? | Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Who were the main travelers on the Santa Fe Trail? | Businessmen |
| What did Joseph Smith begin in 1830? | Mormon Church |
| What is another name for the Mormon Church? | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| What socially unacceptable belief kept the Mormons moving from New York to Ohio to Missouri and to Illinois? | Polygamy |
| Who was murdered in Illinois in 1844? | Joseph Smith |
| Who became the head of the Mormon Church and took his followers to Salt Lake City, Utah? | Brigham Young |
| Who discovered gold in California in 1848? | James Marshall |
| Where was gold discovered in California in 1848? | Sutter's Mill |
| When did more than 100,000 people "rush" to California to find gold? | 1849 |
| Which California city grew from 800 to 25,000 people in two years? | San Francisco |
| What was the name of the preferred method of searching for gold where the gold was washed from loose gravel alongside streams and rivers? | Placer Mining |
| Most people did not make fortunes by finding gold, instead they made a good living by... | supplying the miners |
| Many immigrants from what country came to California between 1849 and 1853? | China |
| What was the end result for California of the population increase by the gold rush? | Statehood |
| What four nations claimed Oregon country? | United States, Great Britain, Spain, Russia |
| Who gave up their claims to Oregon in the Adams-Onis Treaty? | Spain |
| What was the idea, declared by John O'Sullivan that it was America's destiny to expand across the continent to the Pacific? | Manifest Destiny |
| What was the slogan used by the Democrats to refer to where they believed the northern border of Oregon should be located? | Fifty-four forty or Fight |
| What was the name of the meetings held by mountain men to trade their pelts? | Rendezvous |
| What was the name of the canvas-covered wagon used on the Oregon Trail? | Prairie Schooner |
| California's request for statehood in 1850 caused a crisis in Congress because it would upset the balance between free and slave states in the... | Senate |
| What was another name for Hispanic Californians? | Californios |
| The Land Law of 1851 weakened what rights for the Californios? | property rights |
| Very few of these lived in the mining camps in California. | Women |
| Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home were called... | Tejanos |
| In 1830 Mexico issued a decree that stopped all what from the United States into Texas? | Immigration |
| The first battle of the Texas Revolution happened where? | Gonzales |
| Who was the commander of the Alamo? | William Travis |
| Who signed a treaty in 1836 recognizing the independence of Texas? | Santa Anna |
| Andrew Jackson refused to annex Texas because it would upset the balance in Congress of ... | slave and free states |
| President John Tyler supported the annexation of Texas but the treaty failed in the... | Senate |
| In what year did Texas officially become a state of the United States? | 1845 |
| Who was the former Congressman who died at the Alamo? | Davy Crockett |
| Who was the leader of the Texas independence movement? | Stephen Austin |
| Who was named commander in chief of the Texas forces? | Sam Houston |
| In the Texas war for independence, what battle forced Santa Anna to surrender to Texas? | San Jacinto |
| New Mexico territory included all, or part, of which states? | New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah |
| Who was the first American trader to reach Santa Fe and established the Santa Fe Trail? | William Becknell |
| Who passed a law abolishing the Spanish missions, giving some of the land to the Indians and selling the rest? | Mexican government |
| What did shippers and manufacturers hop to build on California's Pacific coast to trade with China and Japan? | ports |
| Who wanted to provoke Mexico into to taking military action first so he could justify a war? | President Polk |
| Northerners accused Democrats of starting a war with Mexico so they could spread... | slavery |
| Who was the American general who captured Mexico City? | Winfield Scott |
| The __?__ was the name of the agreement where Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the United States. | Mexican Cession |
| What was the El Camino Real, or the King's Highway? | road connecting the Spanish missions in California |
| What former slave opposed war with Mexico because he thought the South would bring slavery to any new territories won in the war? | Frederick Douglass |
| The name of the peace treaty that ended the Mexican War was called the Treaty of... | Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
| What two rivers were involved int he disputed boundary between the U.S. and Mexico? | Rio Grande River Nueces River |
| In the war with Mexico, what city was captured without the Americans firing a shot? | Santa Fe |
| In the war with Mexico, what two ports in California were captured by Commodore John Sloat? | Monterey San Francisco |
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