Chapter 12 Test

Question 1

The idea that believed that God intended them to have all the western lands to the shores of the Pacific

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny

Question 2

The men that lived in the Rockies and trapped animals themselves or bought pelts from the Indians

Answer 2

Mountain Men

Question 3

The mountain man that located the South Pass

Answer 3

Jedediah Smith

Question 4

The trail that lead to Mexico and helped transport supplies during the Mexican War

Answer 4

Sante Fe Trail

Question 5

The man whose project was to bring Americans to Texas

Answer 5

Stephen Austin

Question 6

The president of Mexico

Answer 6

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Question 7

The man that promised to bring Texas and Oregon into the US as states

Answer 7

James K. Polk

Question 8

The name of the people that flocked to California during the Gold Rush of 1849

Answer 8

Forty-Niners

Question 9

The road from the East to Oregon

Answer 9

Oregon Trail

Question 10

The religious people that moved to Utah to escape religious persecution

Answer 10

Mormons

Question 11

The founder of the Mormon belief

Answer 11

Joseph Smith

Question 12

The trail that lead to California

Answer 12

California Trail

Question 13

The man that discovered gold in a river in California

Answer 13

James Marshall

Question 14

The man that lead twelve thousand Mormons to Utah

Answer 14

Brigham Young

Question 15

The idea that proposed that the United States ban slavery in any territory it gained from the Mexican War

Answer 15

Wilmont Proviso

Question 16

The compromise that the United States would admit California as a free state

Answer 16

Compromise of 1850

Question 17

The idea that the people would decide whether they wanted to have slavery or remain free of slavery

Answer 17

Popular Sovereignty

Question 18

The group of northern Democrats that were willing to compromise with the problem of slavery

Answer 18

Doughfaces