Chapter 13: The Promise of the West Flashcards
What did Jedediah discover?
South Pass
What was Jedediah Smith’s occupation?
A mountainman
What was the South Pass?
A wagon route in Oregon
What were Jedediah’s best friends?
Bible and rifle
What was James Beckwourth’s occupation?
A black chief of the Crow Indian Tribe and a mountainman
What did James find?
Found the Beckwourth Pass, which is a main wagon route through the Sierra Nevada mountains
What was William Becknell nicknamed?
Father of the Santa Fe Trail
What did William Bechnell do?
Sold goods 2000 times the amount they were worth for silver. Rich businessman
What was ‘Search for the Book of Heaven’?
When four Indian Chiefs came to Missouri from Oregon looking for preacher and a Bible in their language.
Who responded to Search for the Book of Heaven?
Jason Lee
Who painted pictures of those four Indian Chiefs?
George Catlin
What was John McLoughlin nicknamed?
Father of Oregon
What was McLoughlin called by the Indians
White headed eagle
What did Mcloughlin do
Established Fort Vancouver, which was a British fort for British Hudson Bay Company
What was Whitman Mission
Missionary to Oregon, sends Dr. Whitman and Henry Spaulding with 120 wagons and over 1000 pioneers safely to Oregon
What happened to Whitman
Killed by Indians in 1843
What was the Great Migration
When 120 wagons and 1000 settlers came to Oregon
Why was the Oregon trail established for people who wanted to move out west
Due to sickness, pollution, and dirty water
Where should you start and stop on the Oregon Trail
Independence, Missouri ➡️ Independence Rock, Wyoming by 4th of July
What was Wyeth known for?
He wrote detailed notes about his journey like animals and the Indians
What big thing did John C. Fremont do
1st to travel through Sierra Nevada Mts in winter to California
What did Fremont led and what was it
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
Describe the flag of the Bear Flag Revolt
Bear on the flag with one star on it
What happened at Sutter’s Mill?
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
What was Stephen Austin’s nickname
Father of Texas
What did Stephen Austin do
Got Americans to settle in Mexican Texas with freedom of religion
Who was Santa Anna and what did he do
Leader of Mexico and imposes military rule on Americans, treated the, unfairly and declared himself dictator in 1834
What was ‘Remember the Alamo’ about
148 Americans go against 3,000 Mexican for 3 weeks. Crockett, Travis, and Bowie were there. Mexico wins
What battle did Texas become its own country? What was their flag, and what phrase was shouted during this short battle?
Battle of San Jacinto; flag has one lone star on it; “Remember the Alamo” was shouted
Who became the first president in 1836
Sam Houston who was the head of the Texas militia
Meanwhile in USA what who were the two men running for president? Describe them.
James Polk, slogan: “Fifty-four forty or fight”, believed in manifest destiny; Henry Clay ran against him
What is manifest destiny
The idea that it is USA’s destiny to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
In 1845 who is president, and what happens to the states
James Polk, Florida becomes a slave state, Texas enters as a slave state
What was the Oregon Treaty of 1846
British and USA concerning Oregon. USA got Idaho, Washington, Oregon
Who tries to invade Texas again, but who stops him?
Santa Anna; General Zachary Taylor at Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico
Who was the general that got Veracruz, Mexico, and Mexico City
General Winfield Scott
What was the treaty that gave USA lots of land including the Rio Grande
Treaty of Guadalupe
