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Glenco Ch. 12 us his
US History Ch 12 Manifest Destiny
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny is the idea | that the US was meant to extend from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. |
| Oregon Country was | the huge area that lay between the Pacific and the Rocky Mts. north of California. |
| Oregon Country includes | Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming. It also inculded present day British Columbia. |
| Many Americans wanted control of the Oregon Country | so they could access the Pacific Ocean for trading. |
| Great Britian, Spain, Russia, and the U.S. all | wanted the Oregon Territory. |
| Spain and Russia sureendered their rights to the Oregon Country | but the U.S. and Britian still wanted the territory. |
| Joint Occupation | was decided on which allowed Great Britians and Americans to live in Oregon Country. |
| The first Americans to reach the Oregon Country | were mountain men. |
| Mountain men | trapped beaver because their skins were in great demand in the eastern US and Europe. |
| John Jacob Astor organized the | American Fur company in 1808 which built up trade with the East Coast, the Pacific Northwest, and China. |
| Mountain men adopted | Native American ways and dressed in buckskin pants with fringe and moccasins. |
| Mountain men gathered for | rendezvous to meet, relax,compete in races and tell stories of trapping adventures. |
| South Pass is a broad break through the Rocky Mountains | that allowed for easier travel for the settlers to travel through. |
| Alaska is the | largest state that is 2,000 miles from the east to the west. |
| After the beavers were killed off | mountain men became farmers or guides to settlers. |
| Economic troubles in the East and rumours of fertile land in Oregon | caused many settlers to move to Oregon Country. |
| Prarie schooners | were large canvas covered wagons that the pioneers traveled in. |
| The Oregon trail went from | Missouri, across the great plains, along the Platte River, through the South Pass. They then went north up the river to Oregon country. |
| Many Americans thought | the U.S. should expand across the entire continent. (Manifest Destiny) |
| in the 1844 president election, | James K. Polk won because he campaigned for a border of the Oregon Country that gave the US the land they wanted from Great Britian. |
| Davy Crockett moved to Texas to | help the Texans win their independence from Mexico. |
| Conflict over Texas began in 1803 | when the US bought the Loisiana Territory from France. Americans claimed Texas was theirs. |
| Tejanos | Mexicans that made their home in Texas. |
| Empresarios | people who obtained land grants from the government and recruited settlers. |
| Moses Austin | recieved the first Texas land grant in 1821, but died before he could establish his colony. |
| Stephen F. Austin carried on his father's plan by | recruiting "the Old Three Hundred" to settle on the Brazos and Colorado Rivers of Texas. |
| Austin, Texas, is the state capital | and was named after Stephen F. Austin. |
| Because there were more Americans in Texas than Mexicans, | Mexico put out a decree, stating that no more immigration from the United States was allowed. |
| A tax was placed on | goods going from the US to Mexico. This angered Texans. |
| General Santa Anna became president | of Mexico in 1833, but later overthrew the constitution and named himself the dictator of Mexico. |
| Santa Anna sent an army to Gonzalez | where they tried to seiz the Texan cannon. The Texans decorated the cannon with the words, "come and Take It". |
| Juan Seguin | was an outspoken captain that demanded Texas independence. |
| The Texans liberated | San Antonio from a large Mexican force, which cause some Texans to think the battle was coming close to an end. |
| In 1836, Santa Anna sent troops to reclaim San Antonio where | they found a small band of Texans in the mission called the Alamo. |
| The Alamo only had | 180 men and did not have a large supply of gunpowder. |
| Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William B. Travis | were key leaders in the Alamo battle. |
| Thw Alamo defenders kept the Mexican army of several thousands at bay for 12 days | but after a cannon ball smashed the wall of the mission, the Mexican army entered the Alamo killing everyone but a few women and children. |
| Texans drew up a new | constitution which declared independence from Mexico on March the 2nd, 1836 , and declared themselves the Republic of Texas. |
| The Texas Declaration of Texas charged Mexico with | taking their freedom of religion away, the right to trial by jury, the right to bear arms, and the right to petition. |
| Sam Houston | was the Commander in Chief during the Republic of Texas fight for freedom. He was also named the president of Texas. |
| At the final battle of San Jacinto | the Mexican army was defeated and Santa Anna was captured during a surprise attack. |
| The US did not want to annex Texas at first | because it was a slave state which would upset the balance between free and slave states in the US. |
| On December 29, 1845, | Texas became a state of the United States under President James K. Polk. |
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