Chapter 13 Test (Stump)

Question 1

1) what is the land that forms the farthest extent os a nation’s settled regions?
2) at what river did America’s farthest extents begin to the ‘West?’

Answer 1

1) frontier
2) Mississippi River

Question 2

1) what land ares made up the Great Plains?
2)what did most farmers think about the land area?

Answer 2

1) Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains.
2) they thought is wouldn’t be good for farming

Question 3

1) what land ares made up the Northwest?
2) other the United States, what other countries claimed some or all of this land?

Answer 3

1) Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia
2) France, Spain, England, and Russia

Question 4

What land ares make up the Southwest?
2) who owned this land ares for nearly 300 years?

Answer 4

1) Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, 1/2 do Colorado
2) Spain in Mexico

Question 5

1) in what year Mexico become an independent country?
2) how did Mexico change its policy of who could settle there?

Answer 5

1) 1821
2) they granted to individual rancheros

Question 6

1) what phrase became popular with Americans’ feelings toward the west?
2) why was expansion so popular at this time?
3) which other nation half the most territory in the present-day unites?

Answer 6

1) manifest destiny
2) new open land, increases transportation, increase population and immigration, new trails to the west
3) Mexico

Question 7

1) what was the first trail the opened to the west in 1821?
2)who started this trail?
3)what country gave him permission?

Answer 7

1) Santa Fe Trail
2) William Becknells
3) Mexico

Question 8

1) what type of trade was most successful in the west before the 1800?
2) where did German immigrant, John Jacob Astor, develop an outpost on the Pacific Coast?

Answer 8

1) fur trade
2) Astoria Oregon

Question 9

1) what nickname was given to the fur trappers of the Northwest?
2) what did they call their meetings each summer where they would sell their furs to traders back East?

Answer 9

1) Mountain Men
2) rendezvous

Question 10

1) what western trail was the first to develop all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
2) why was the trail originally established?

Answer 10

1) Oregon Trail
2) the free and fertile land in Oregon

Question 11

What man led 300 American families into Mexican-held Texas in 1820?

Answer 11

Stephen Austin

Question 12

1) when did Texas became an independent country?
2) what did they call their country?

Answer 12

1) 1836
2) the republic of Texas

Question 13

1) what former Spanish mission did 185 Texans and defended to the death?
2) what Texas general defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto to give Tex’s its independence?

Define a dictator

Answer 13

1) the Alamo
2) Sam Houston

Ruler with total power of our country typically one who has obtained control by force

Question 14

1) how long did Texas have to wait to be annexed by the U.S.?
2) what does annex mean?
3) why did president Jackson and van burden refuse to annex them for so long?

Answer 14

1) almost 10 years
2) to add on
3) they feared that this addition would be a slave state

Question 15

What land area did the U.S. divide with Britain in 1846, along the 49 north north latitude line?

Answer 15

Oregon, washington

Question 16

1)what religious group moved yo Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847?
2) what two leaders of this group devolved this religion?

Answer 16

1) Mormons
2) Joseph Smith and Brigham Young

Question 17

1) when and where was gold discovered in California?
2) who discovered it there?

Answer 17

1) January 1848 at sutters mill
2) James W Martin

Question 18

1) what nickname was given to rush of gold seekers who came out the following year?
2) what was California’s population increase within 2 years?

Answer 18

1) forty-niners
2) 14000-100,000

Question 19

1) what were the conditions of mining towns like, especially since California was still a independent country, and not yet a u.s state?
2) what were ‘vigilantes?’

Answer 19

1) make own laws because its not a state yet
2) self-appointed law makers

Question 20

1) during the “Gold Rush,” what happened to the population of Californian cities (like San Francisco)?
2) by 1860 what percentage of people were foreign-born?

Answer 20

1) 57,000 to 100,000 ten years later
2) 40%