Chapter 11 Schultz

Question 0

Who was the leader of the Mormon Church and led his followers to Utah?

Answer 0

Brigham Young

Question 1

Who created the American Fur Company and one of the first settlements in the Oregon Country?

Answer 1

John Jacob Astor

Question 2

What trail was from Missouri to New Mexico?

Answer 2

Sante Fe Trail

Question 3

Who were fur trappers and fur traders?

Answer 3

Mountain men

Question 4

Who was the leader of Mexico during the Texas Revolution?

Answer 4

Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

Question 5

Who was the hero of the independent nation of Texas?

Answer 5

Sam Houston

Question 6

Where was Santa Ana captured and forced to sign a treaty giving Texas independence?

Answer 6

Battle of Jacinto

Question 7

Who started a successful colony on the lower Colorado River?

Answer 7

Stephen Austin

Question 8

Who was the Mexican priest that led a rebellion and failed against the Spanish Monarchy?

Answer 8

Father Costilla

Question 9

What idea states that A Erica s had been fated to settle the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 9

Manifest Destiny

Question 10

What 10 million dollar purchased southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico?

Answer 10

Gadsden Purchase

Question 11

When did the Americans declare California to be an independent nation?

Answer 11

Bear Flag Revolt

Question 12

What treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War?

Answer 12

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 13

Who won the presidential election in 1844?

Answer 13

James Polk

Question 14

Who was the Swiss immigrant that got permission to start a colony in California?

Answer 14

John Sutter

Question 15

Who were gold-seeking migrants to California?

Answer 15

Forty-niners

Question 16

What group of westerners traveled to California but got stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?

Answer 16

Donner Party

Question 17

What country did a large group of immigrants come from?

Answer 17

China

Question 18

What does search for gold mean?

Answer 18

Prospect