Chapter 12- Immigration, Expansion, And Sectional Conflict

Question 1

Tejano

Answer 1

A native Texan of Mexican descent

Question 2

Stephen f Austin

Answer 2

He exemplified the shifting allegiances of many anglos on the American frontier. He was known as the “mexicanized anglo” who helped turn Texas into an agriculturally and ethnically rich province.

Question 3

German and Irish immigrants

Answer 3

The largest immigrant groups to come to the u.s. between 1840 and 1860. They formed more than 60 percent of the population of St. Louis; nearly half the population of NYC, Chicago Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit, and San Francisco; and well over a third of the population of New Orleans, Baltimore and Boston by 1860.

Question 4

Santa Fe trail

Answer 4

Trading route from St. Louis to Santa Fe.

Question 5

Alamo

Answer 5

An abandoned mission where 200 defenders of San Antonio retreated in February 1836 after Santa Anna’s army of 4000 men defeated them

Question 6

Sam Houston

Answer 6

Military leader and president of the republic of Texas who defeated Santa Anna’s men in 15 minutes.

Question 7

John Tyler

Answer 7

Followed Harrison as president of the United States after Harrison’s untimely death.

Question 8

Annexation of Texas

Answer 8

A foreign policy initiated that ignited debate between pro-slaveryites and abolitionists, eroded Tyler’s base of support, and became the sole issue of the election of 1844.

Question 9

James k Polk

Answer 9

The first “dark-horse” presidential nominee in American history and a supporter of immediate annexation.

Question 10

Manifest destiny

Answer 10

Coined by journalist John L O’Sullivan, it was the belief that it was the United States mission to expand its territorial and social reach.

Question 11

Zachary Taylor

Answer 11

Victorious military leader in the Mexican-American war who became the president of the United States in 1848. He was a member of the Whig party.

Question 12

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 12

Mexico ceded Texas with the rio grande boundary, New Mexico, and California to the United States. In return, the United States assumed the claims of American citizens against the Mexican government and paid Mexico $15 million. It was signed on February 2, 1848.

Question 13

Wilmot proviso

Answer 13

The proposed amendment that stipulated that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired by the negotiations.

Question 14

Free-soil party

Answer 14

A faction of the Democratic Party in New York that favored the wilmot proviso. Called the barnburners, they broke up with former liberty party abolitionists, and courted anti slavery “conscience” whigs.

Question 15

California gold rush

Answer 15

After an American carpenter discovered gold in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada range in 1848, many Americans moved to California to look for gold