Chapter 14

Question 0

Texas MD

Answer 0

-east TX used to trade with Mexico
-If you want TX land:
1 learn Spanish
2 loyal with Mex govt.
3 become Catholic
4 no slaves
-GTT- “gone to texas” on doors
-1836- became a slave state, Iowa was free to balance it out

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

• joint occupation for Oregon Terr.
• “manifest destiny” coined by Sullivan
• Gast- painted it with Lady Liberty
• TOM- Texas Oregon Mexico

Question 2

The Alamo

Answer 2

200 surrounded, 500 Mexicans killed

• Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis killed
• bought time for Sam Houston to get more people to help
• Santa Anna stopped rebels who wanted to annex with America

Question 3

Oregon MD

Answer 3

• Oregon Trail- more people in OT, more a chance to make it part of America
• if we get OT we have a strong foothold with more world trade
• 1846- Oregon Treaty- extends 49th parallel all the way to the Pacific

Question 4

Mexico MD

Answer 4

• Polk- one term, most success with manifest destiny
• TX boarder was Rio Grande, Mexico says its Nueces River
• Slidell wanted all of Southwest for 30 mil, didn’t work
• Oregon Treaty was to prevent British conflict during Mexican conflict

Question 5

Mexico Grabs

Answer 5

• Taylor sent 5k across Nueces to get Mexico to shoot them to start a war
• Trist and then Scott said to treatify, Polk wants all of Mexico

Question 6

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Answer 6

1 15 million in cost
2 Rio Grande was boarder
3 Mexican Cession and CA
4 Mexican debt to US forgiven

Question 7

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 7

• spending bill, any land from Mexico isn’t open to slavery, didn’t pass
• “Fire-Eaters”- Calhoun (for slavery) Common Property Doctrine
• Dread Scott Decision- almost word for word of Calhoun
• extend 36-30 line to Pacific, slavery south, free north? Lincoln says NO

Question 8

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 8

• let the people decide
• Democrats on slavery
• Kansas showed that pop.sov didn’t work

Question 9

CA Gold Rush of 1848-49

Answer 9

• first gold found in Sutter’s Mill
• -San Francisco very populated
• Levi Strauss- real money is in supplying the miners

Question 10

Election of 1844

Answer 10

Dark Horse Candidate- Polk -“Little Hickory”- from Tennessee

• Whigs- Henry Clay for American System, silent on TX
• Liberty- Birney took votes from Clay
• 4th- Joseph Smith

POLK WON

Question 11

Election of 1848

Answer 11

• Lewis Cass for Polk- take Mexico Cuba Canada and Alaska
• Van Buren- antiblack, not antslave
• Taylor- no one knew where he stood
• TAYLOR WON BUT DIED
• Fillmore took over
• divided the Whigs

Question 12

Mountain Men

Answer 12

• live in the mountains
• trapped and traded for a living
• helped with western geography

Question 13

Jedediah Smith

Answer 13

1st American to enter CA over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, helped with geography

Question 14

Zebulon Pike

Answer 14

Led an expedition to map out the Rocky Mountains

Question 15

John Wesley Powell

Answer 15

Mapped out the Grand Canyon in 1869

Question 16

Santa Fé Trail

Answer 16

900 mile trail

-allowed for American merchants to trade with each other more easily

Question 17

The Donner Party

Answer 17

• resulted to cannibalism on the Oregon Trail

- showed how dangerous the travel west could be

Question 18

Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

Answer 18

Our moral duty to oppose an immoral government. Ghandi and the King used it for their civil rights