CH.9

Question 0

An economic system in which private business and indivduals control the means of production

Answer 0

Capitalism

Question 1

What did people do in the Market Revolution

Answer 1

People bought and sold goods rather than making them for their own use

Question 2

List three things that make up the means of production

Answer 2

factories, machines, and land

Question 3

What are people called that risk their own money and undertake a new business

Answer 3

entrepeneurs

Question 4

Vulcanized rubber

Answer 4

charles goodyear

Question 5

Industrila Sewing machine

Answer 5

elias house

Question 6

home sewing machine

Answer 6

Isaac Singer

Question 7

The steel plow

Answer 7

John Deere

Question 8

The reaper

Answer 8

Cyrus McCormick

Question 9

List three reasons for american expansion

Answer 9

Fresh start: panic of 1837
Land- farmers, speculators
New trade with China japan

Question 10

What was the vehicle used by settlers to travel to the west

Answer 10

whagons, prarier schooner

Question 11

what was the formal name for the morman religion

Answer 11

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Question 12

Who was the Mormon Founder

Answer 12

Joseph Smith

Question 13

What was the fate of the founder of the Mormons

Answer 13

Jailed for treason, and died at the hands of a mob

Question 14

Who led the mormons to Utah

Answer 14

Brigham Young

Question 15

What were the terms of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Answer 15

GB and the US had joint occupation of the oregon teerritoy. Settles the 49 parallel as the northern boundary

Question 16

What does the term “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” mean

Answer 16

It stands for a specefic longitude/lattitude line that they wanted to settle our boundaries at. Theyw anted to fo to war with Gb at the location

Question 17

what man was the most successful impresario in texas

Answer 17

Stephen A. Austin

Question 18

Who was the leader of the Mexican army during the Alamo massacre

Answer 18

Santa Anna

Question 19

Who were the two most famous men that died at the alamo

Answer 19

Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie

Question 20

The election of 1844

Answer 20

Demo- James K Polk

Whig- Henry Clay

Question 21

what was the border of texas prior to the mexican war

Answer 21

Texas- Rio Grande

Mexico- Nueces River

Question 22

What man became known as the “Long Marcher” during this war

Answer 22

Colonel Stephen Kerney

Question 23

what general was sent to defend the texas version of the border
what was his nickname

Answer 23

zachary taylor

old rough and ready

Question 24

What general won the Battle of Veracruz and captured mexico city

Answer 24

winfield scott

Old fuss and feather

Question 26

What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hdalgo

Answer 26

• Mexico agreed to th Rio Grande as the border for Texas
• ceded new mexico and california to usa
• usa paid 15 mil for mexican cession
• usa guranteed mexicans living in the eare: freedom of religon, protection of property, bilungual elections, and open borders