Chapter 14

Question 1

Spanish Settlers living in present day Southern Texas

Answer 1

Tejanos

Question 2

agents who agreed to bring settlers to Texas and received large land grants in return

Answer 2

Empressarios

Question 3

Old Spanish Missionary House that was the center of the fight for Texas’ Independence

Answer 3

Alamo

Question 4

Mexican victory during the Texas Revolution in which Mexican leader Antonio Lopez De Santa Ana executed almost 400 Texas Soldiers after their surrender

Answer 4

Battle of Goliad

Question 5

Final Battle of the Texas Revoltuion; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army in independence for Texas

Answer 5

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 6

Austin, Texas was named after him; he was the man the brought the first Americans into Texas because he was granted permission by the Mexicans.

Answer 6

Stephen Austin

Question 7

Mexican priest who established independence movement among American Indians and mestizos in 1810; despite early victories, was captured and executed.
He wanted to abolish slavery and end unfair taxes to indians.

Answer 7

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Question 8

seized power in Mexico after collapse of empire of Mexico in 1824; tried to tighten controls on Mexican territories; defeated by the United States in Mexican-American War in 1848; unseated by liberal rebellion in 1854

Answer 8

Lopez de Santa Ana

Question 9

led the forces to win an overwhelming victory at the Battle of San Jacinto

Answer 9

Sam Houston

Question 10

Battle where Santa Ana charged almost all of the 400 Texan soldiers with treason and then executed them.

Answer 10

Battle of Goliad

Question 11

Whom led the group of Texans to occupy the Alamo

Answer 11

William Travis and Jim Bowie.

Question 12

Helped defend and lead 150 men at the mission in the Alamo during Santa Anna’s assault of the mission

Answer 12

William Travis

Question 13

To add to an existing country or area to another

Answer 13

Annex

Question 14

American adventurers and fur trappers who opened up the West to future settlers by exploring and creating trails and maps.

Answer 14

Mountain men

Question 15

Beginning in the 1820s mountain men met at the __________

Answer 15

Rendezvous

Question 16

First missionaries that Settle in Walla Walla, Washington. They made the difficult journey across the Great Plains and through the Rocikes.

Answer 16

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

Question 17

Name of the trail that many settlers followed moving west. It started in Independence, Missouri, and stretched morn than 2,000 miles across the Northern Great Plains and the Rocky mountains.

Answer 17

Oregon Trail

Question 18

The ________Trail was a transportation route through central North America that connected Missouri to Northern Mexico, it served as a vital commercial and military highway.

Answer 18

Santa Fe Trail

Question 19

what was the capital of the Republic of Texas?

Answer 19

The new town of Houston

Question 20

Who was the president of the New nation “Republic of Texas”? (hint: he was a former governor of Tennessee

Answer 20

Sam Houston

Question 21

_________Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the gold fields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history.
Various routes branched out across the Sierra Nevada, as the emigrants made there way to various destinations in California.

Answer 21

California Trail

Question 22

Forty-seven surviving members of a group of migrants to California who were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. in California in 1846-47.

Answer 22

Donner Party

Question 23

The “Fort” built by Swiss immigrant in California. Owner of a trading post on the California Trail where gold was first found in 1848.

Answer 23

Sutter’s Fort

Question 24

Descendents of Spanish and Mexican conquerors; Spanish speaking inhabitants of California.

Answer 24

Californios

Question 25

Became the 11th President in 1844. He was known as the “expansionist president” as under Polk the U.S. gained Oregon Country and the Mexican Cession territory.

Answer 25

James K. Polk

Question 26

A General during the Mexican War and the12th President of the United States. It was Gen. He started the Mexican War by moving troops into Mexico and instigating Mexican troops.

Answer 26

Zachary Taylor

Question 27

The idea that God intended for the U.S. to expand westward.

Answer 27

Manifest Destiny

Question 28

Bear Flag Republic

Answer 28

Present-day California became the Bear Flag Republic in 1847 after the Bear Flag Revolt against Mexico in 1846.

Question 29

California in 1846 by rebellious white settlers, who declared independence for California, in what came to be known as the __________ _____ _____________

Answer 29

Bear Flag revolt.

Question 30

American writer and antislavery advocate, A leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.

Answer 30

Henry David Thoreau

Question 31

American General who led a campaign into Mexico City during the Mexican War. He was successful in capturing the Mexico City and forcing the Mexicans to surrender.

Answer 31

Winfield Scott

Question 32

In 1848, a treaty signed by the U.S. and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican-American War; Mexico had to give up much of its northern territory to the U.S (Mexican Cession); in exchange the U.S. gave Mexico $15 million and said that Mexicans living in the lands of the Mexican Cession would be protected.

Answer 32

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 33

was the territory given up by Mexico to the US after the Mexican War consisting of present-day California, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

Answer 33

Mexican Cession

Question 34

In 1853, the U.S. purchased land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico; set the current borders of the contiguous United States.

Answer 34

Gadsden Purchase

Question 35

Easterners who flocked to California after the discovery of gold there. They established claims all over northern California and overwhelmed the existing government - arrived in 1849.

Answer 35

Forty-niners

Question 36

The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the _____ _______ .
began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter.

Answer 36

California Gold Rush,

Question 37

search for mineral deposits (gold) in a place, especially by means of experimental drilling and excavation.

Answer 37

Prospect

Question 38

American religious leader who headed the Mormon Church after the murder of Joseph Smith, he moved the community to Utah, leading thousands along what came to be known as the Mormon Trail to the main settlement at Salt Lake City.

Answer 38

Brigham Young

Question 39

A man that started the Mormon religion In the 1820s, in the state of New York. He based it on what he said were God’s words to the ancient people of America.

Answer 39

Joseph Smith

Question 40

the popular name given to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Answer 40

Mormon

Question 41

Trail across five states that Mormons traveled from 1846 to 1869 to escape religious persecution.

Answer 41

Mormon trail