Chapter 13 Review Questions Flashcards
What factors accounted for the massive westward movement of Americans? What did Americans mean by Manifest Destiny? Address the following statement: “Manifest Destiny was not an act of providence, but was instead a self-fulfilling prophecy of American expansionism.”
- cheap fertile land, the british leaving
- manifest destiny is the right of Americans to spread democracy from coast to coast. Wherever hard borders didn’t exist, the US would dominate and expand.
Why did President Jefferson tell Lewis and Clark to “cultivate good relations with the Sioux”? How did Lewis and Clark describe this large tribe on the Great Plains? How did migration transform the West of the Plains Indians after 1830?
because the sioux were the most powerful tribe in the region. Migration made the lands hard to inhabit for the tribes. The Fort Laramie Treaty gave land grands to the Sioux south of the Platte and attempted to give hard boundaries to Indian lands.
Who lived in the Mexican borderlands of the southwest? Define the following terms: mestizo, criollo, Californio, and Tejano. Why was it difficult for Mexican authorities to control the region? How did slavery affect how the new settlements developed?
- Indians, Mestizos (racially mixed usually spanish and indian), criollos (u.s. born whites of spanish ancentry, Spaniards.
- Californio (Spanish descent in California), Tejano (Spanish speaking Mexicans born in Texas)
- Mexico City was far away from San Antonio and impending threat of invasion kept immigration rates low.
- slavery was illegal and the settlers ignored the laws of Mexican immigration which led General Santa Anna to go to war.
Who was responsible for the outbreak of the Mexican War? Were Mexicans the victims of American aggression? How did westward expansion antagonize relations between the American North and South, and foreshadow further conflict between the two regions?
The belligerent immigrants were responsible for the Mexican War. They refused to abandon slavery, join Catholicism, and follow other Mexican laws of immigration. After Texan independence the Mexicans who remained were demoted to second class citizens in their own country and pushed out of power. The north didn’t like that slavery kept expanding westward and added to north vs. south rivalries.
