American History 127: Section I Review Flashcards
The “Old West” was the foothills of what mountains?
the Appalachian mountains
___ led the first party of white men into Kentucky in 1769.
Daniel Boone
Boone’s trail through the ___ was called the Wilderness Road.
Cumberland Gap
The first permanent settlers in Kentucky founded the town of ___.
Boonesborough
During the War for Independence, ___ financed his own expedition against the British and their Indian allies.
George Rogers Clark
Sacawajea was a Shoshoni Indian woman who served as a guide and interpreter for the ___ expedition.
Lewis and Clark
Captain Zebulun Montgomery ___ conducted a second exploration of the Louisian Territory that followed the Mississippi River two thousand miles north into Minnesota.
Pike
___ established Fort Manuel and Fort Lisa, helped form the Missouri Fur Company, and was an Indian subagent for the Missouri River tribes.
Manuel Lisa
The “___” occured from 1815 to 1820, directly after the War of 1812.
Great Migration
Major Stephen H. ___ explored the land near the Red and Arkansas Rivers and called the Great Plains area the “Great American Desert.”
Long
The real explorers of the West were ___ and ___.
traders; fur trappers
Jedidiah Smith and Jim Bridger were “___” who helped explore the West.
mountain men
Jim Bridger was the first white man to see what famous lake?
the Great Salt Lake
Jedidiah Smith and his part were the first Americans to travel to ___ overland.
California
Jedidiah Smith always carried his Bible and rifle with him, and he has sometimes been called the “___.”
Knight in Buckskin
Stephen Austin took three hundred families to establish the first Anglo colonies in ___.
Texas
What were the names of the first two American settlements in Texas?
- Washington-on-the-Brazos
- Columbia
The Anglos who organized colonies in the Mexican province of Texas were called ___.
empresarios
Initiall, the Texans defeated the Mexicans at ___.
San Antonio
General Santa Anna was the dictator of ___ during the Texas War for Independence.
Mexico
The mission San Antonion de Valero later became known as the ___.
Alamo
Name three famous colonels who defended the Alamo.
- William Travis
- James Bowie
- David Crockett
___ of the Alamo’s defenders were killed by Santa Anna and the Mexican army.
All
General Santan Anna personally ordered the execution of 350 unarmed prisoners from Texas at the presidio of ___.
Goliad
