Chapter 14- Expansion to the Pacific

Question 0

1836

Answer 0

Texas war for independence

Question 1

Austin

Answer 1

Established Texas

Question 2

Anna

Answer 2

Mexican dictator

Question 3

Travis

Answer 3

Commander of Alamo

Question 4

Battle cry of texans

Answer 4

“Remember the Alamo”

Question 5

Battle of jan jacinto

Answer 5

Houston won victory

Question 6

Plebiscite

Answer 6

Peoples will by direct vote

Question 7

Hudson’s bay company

Answer 7

Fur trade

Question 8

Lee

Answer 8

Established oregon territory

Question 9

Fort Vancouver

Answer 9

Where lee preached his first sermon

Question 10

Whitman

Answer 10

Medical missionary

Question 11

Spalding

Answer 11

First white women to travel west of the Rockies

Question 12

“Great migration”

Answer 12

A thousand settlers made it safety to oregon

Question 13

Clay

Answer 13

Whig candidate in presidential election of 1844

Question 14

Polk

Answer 14

Won president election

Question 15

Slidell

Answer 15

Special envoy that Polk sent to Mexico

Question 16

Taylor

Answer 16

“Old rough & ready”

Question 17

New England

Answer 17

Opposed mexican war

Question 18

Battle of buena vista

Answer 18

“Old rough and ready” won

Question 19

1846-1848

Answer 19

Years of mexican war

Question 20

Guadalupe hidalgo

Answer 20

Treaty that ended the war

Question 21

Mexican cession

Answer 21

Half million square miles granted by Mexico to U.S.

Question 22

Sitter

Answer 22

Owner of the sawmill

Question 23

1849

Answer 23

California gold rush

Question 24

Forty niners

Answer 24

Gold seekers in California

Question 25

Gadsden

Answer 25

United States minister to mexican in 1853

Question 26

Gadsden purchase

Answer 26

United States paid Mexico $10 million dollars for land