Chapter 16-17

Question 1

Tejanos

Answer 1

Spanish settlers who lived in what is now southern Texas

Question 2

Sutters Fort

Answer 2

Was the California colony started by swiss immigrants

Question 3

Sam Houston

Answer 3

The leader who was elected first president of the republic of Texas

Question 4

Battle of San jacinto

Answer 4

Texas gained independence by defeating the Mexican army

Question 5

What happened to the California mission system in 1833

Answer 5

Mexico ended it and gave the mission lands to California

Question 6

Moses Austin

Answer 6

The first agent contracted to bring sellers to Texas

Question 7

What happened at rendezvous

Answer 7

Mountain men and American Indians sold their fur to fur company

Question 8

Once Mexico gained independence it tried to bring ________ & ________ into closer contact with the rest of its territory

Answer 8

Texas and California

Question 9

The republic of Texas encourage immigration from the US and Europe by?

Answer 9

Offering Land grants

Question 10

Once Garrick increased along the California trail ______ greatly outnumbered the _____

Answer 10

Mexicans and Americans

Question 11

Agustin de iturbide was

Answer 11

With the rebel’s and he defeated the Spanish

Question 12

Impresarios

Answer 12

Agents who were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s

Question 13

Mountain men

Answer 13

Were non-Indian fur trappers and traders hired by eastern companies

Question 14

Father Jose Maria Morelos y pavon

Answer 14

Continued the revolution in Mexico after the previous leader had been captured and executed

Question 15

Who claimed ownership of the Oregon country at the begging of the 1800s

Answer 15

Great Britain

Question 16

In the Battle or Goliath the Texans surrender because

Answer 16

They were greatly outnumbered

Question 17

____________ went to the Pacific Northwest in 1836 to convert Indians to Christianity

Answer 17

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman