1840's

Question 1

Zachary Taylor

Answer 1

American General

Question 2

Stephen Austin

Answer 2

Texas Leader (1821-1827)

Question 3

Santa Anna

Answer 3

President/General of Mexico

Question 4

William Becknell

Answer 4

Opened the Santa Fe trail

Question 5

Brigham Young

Answer 5

Leader of the Mormon Trail

Question 6

Jedediah Smith

Answer 6

Mountain Man

Question 7

James Polk

Answer 7

President of the United States in 1844

Question 8

Winfield Scott

Answer 8

American General

Question 9

Juan Seguin

Answer 9

led tejano revolt

Question 10

John Sullivan

Answer 10

Person who first used/say Manifest Destiny

Question 11

Mountain men

Answer 11

Men who went west to trap in rocky mountains

Question 12

Land speculators

Answer 12

People who bought huge amounts of land cheap and resold at a profit

Question 13

Mormons

Answer 13

A different Christian belief.

Question 14

Tejanos

Answer 14

Spanish word for Texan

Question 15

Bear Flag Revolt

Answer 15

war between American leaders of General Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott against General Santa Anna and an army of 15,000 mexicans for California

Question 16

San Jacinto

Answer 16

A battle fought in present day Harris County Texas on 4/21/1836

Question 17

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 17

1848, Texas part of U.S. and Rio Grande Mexican Border.

Question 18

Mexican Cession

Answer 18

Mexico gave California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, & Wyoming to America.

Question 19

Battle of Alamo

Answer 19

1800 mexicans surrounded 183 Texans inside the alamo mission (including William Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crocket)

Question 20

Lone-star republic

Answer 20

What Texas was called when they were a free nation.

Question 21

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 21

Land sold by Mexico for $10 million (southern part Arizona and New Mexico)

Question 22

Number who moved west 1840-1860

Answer 22

250,000 people moved west.

Question 23

Donner party

Answer 23

A group of 87 emigrants tried a shortcut to california, but were caught in the snow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the winter of 1846- 1847.

Question 24

Sam Houston

Answer 24

Texas leader/President (1836)

Question 25

Name three things that Americans had to agree to in order to settle in Mexican owned Texas

Answer 25

1. learn spanish
2. Non-drinking
3. Attend Catholic Church

Question 26

Name four things that motivated Americans to move west

Answer 26

1. Manifest Destiny 2, California Gold Rush 3. Starting fresh 4.

Question 27

Name three things the Mexican government forced on the new settlers because they refused to follow Mexican law

Answer 27

1. More troops to enforce law 2. Border shut down 3. Charged taxes

Question 28

List 2 reasons why Americans did not want Texas to become a state.

Answer 28

1. there would not be a free/slave state to enter with them

2. Feared war with mexico

Question 29

List 3 territories the United States gained in 1840s

Answer 29

California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, & Wyoming