Chapter 13: The Promise of the West Flashcards

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What did Jedediah discover?

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South Pass

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What was Jedediah Smith’s occupation?

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A mountainman

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What was the South Pass?

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A wagon route in Oregon

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What were Jedediah’s best friends?

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Bible and rifle

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What was James Beckwourth’s occupation?

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A black chief of the Crow Indian Tribe and a mountainman

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What did James find?

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Found the Beckwourth Pass, which is a main wagon route through the Sierra Nevada mountains

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What was William Becknell nicknamed?

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Father of the Santa Fe Trail

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What did William Bechnell do?

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Sold goods 2000 times the amount they were worth for silver. Rich businessman

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What was ‘Search for the Book of Heaven’?

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When four Indian Chiefs came to Missouri from Oregon looking for preacher and a Bible in their language.

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Who responded to Search for the Book of Heaven?

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Jason Lee

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Who painted pictures of those four Indian Chiefs?

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George Catlin

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What was John McLoughlin nicknamed?

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Father of Oregon

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What was McLoughlin called by the Indians

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White headed eagle

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What did Mcloughlin do

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Established Fort Vancouver, which was a British fort for British Hudson Bay Company

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What was Whitman Mission

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Missionary to Oregon, sends Dr. Whitman and Henry Spaulding with 120 wagons and over 1000 pioneers safely to Oregon

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What happened to Whitman

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Killed by Indians in 1843

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What was the Great Migration

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When 120 wagons and 1000 settlers came to Oregon

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Why was the Oregon trail established for people who wanted to move out west

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Due to sickness, pollution, and dirty water

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Where should you start and stop on the Oregon Trail

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Independence, Missouri ➡️ Independence Rock, Wyoming by 4th of July

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What was Wyeth known for?

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He wrote detailed notes about his journey like animals and the Indians

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What big thing did John C. Fremont do

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1st to travel through Sierra Nevada Mts in winter to California

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What did Fremont led and what was it

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The Bear Flag Revolt, turned the city of Sonoma, Mexico in Cali to be a country for one day, stopped by USA and Cali became a state

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Describe the flag of the Bear Flag Revolt

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Bear on the flag with one star on it

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What happened at Sutter’s Mill?

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John Sutter’s built a mill for business, but John Marshall found gold 98 2/3 pure. People came to pan for gold were called forty-miners. Sutter’s went bankrupt

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What was Stephen Austin’s nickname

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Father of Texas

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What did Stephen Austin do

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Got Americans to settle in Mexican Texas with freedom of religion

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Who was Santa Anna and what did he do

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Leader of Mexico and imposes military rule on Americans, treated the, unfairly and declared himself dictator in 1834

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What was ‘Remember the Alamo’ about

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148 Americans go against 3,000 Mexican for 3 weeks. Crockett, Travis, and Bowie were there. Mexico wins

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What battle did Texas become its own country? What was their flag, and what phrase was shouted during this short battle?

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Battle of San Jacinto; flag has one lone star on it; “Remember the Alamo” was shouted

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Who became the first president in 1836

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Sam Houston who was the head of the Texas militia

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Meanwhile in USA what who were the two men running for president? Describe them.

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James Polk, slogan: “Fifty-four forty or fight”, believed in manifest destiny; Henry Clay ran against him

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What is manifest destiny

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The idea that it is USA’s destiny to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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In 1845 who is president, and what happens to the states

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James Polk, Florida becomes a slave state, Texas enters as a slave state

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What was the Oregon Treaty of 1846

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British and USA concerning Oregon. USA got Idaho, Washington, Oregon

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Who tries to invade Texas again, but who stops him?

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Santa Anna; General Zachary Taylor at Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico

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Who was the general that got Veracruz, Mexico, and Mexico City

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General Winfield Scott

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What was the treaty that gave USA lots of land including the Rio Grande

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Treaty of Guadalupe