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3rd grade chapter 8
3rd grade history chapter 8 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who rushed to California in search of gold | forty-niners |
| people who were the first to settle an area | pioneers |
| people who gained the most money from the California gold rush | merchants |
| people who get natural resources from the earth | miners |
| The actual distance between two places on a map can be found by using a ______. | map scale |
| A small map or globe that shows where an area is located in the world is called a ___________. | locator map |
| The British and Americans decided the border for Oregon Country would be on the _____. | 49th parallel |
| In the Battle of San Jacinto, as Houston's soldiers attacked, they yelled ______________. | "Remember the Alamo!" |
| People in Texas decided to fight against Santa Anna to bring back the Mexican | Constitution of 1824 |
| President of Texas | Sam Houston |
| Leader of the Mormons | Brigham Young |
| Doctor for the Cayuse people | Marcus Whitman |
| President of Mexico | Santa Anna |
| Wrote Christian writings and songs in the Nez Perce language | Henry and Eliza Spalding |
| Why did Polk want to take California? | it had excellent port cities |
| What war was fought in 1846 | Mexican-American War |
| What did some Americans dislike about how Polk started the Mexican-American war | They thought the war was unjust and that it was the wrong way to get more land. |
| What caused California's population growth in 1849 | gold rush |
| The belief that God gave Americans all the land between the two oceans is called | manifest destiny |
| replaced Whigs with Democrats in the national government | John Tyler |
| Died while in office | William Henry Harrison |
| Wanted to increase the borders of the United States | James K Polk |
| Name 2 advantages the Americans had in the Mexican-American war | Better guns and cannons; better leaders |
| Name on advantage the Mexicans had in the Mexican-American war | Had more soldiers, blocked the road to Mexico City |
| What did America gain as a result of the Mexican-American war | more land |
| Why did some slave owners not take their slaves to California | Feared the slaves would run away to mine for gold |
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