Chapter 9

Question 0

T or F: Many overlanders found their way by using guide books written by earlier emigrants

Answer 0

True

Question 1

T or F: Many emigrants headed for California and Oregon because they assumed that the Great Plains contained poor land for farming

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T or F: Frequent attacks by Native American warriors posed the main danger to the wagon trains

Answer 2

False

Question 3

T or F: Stephen Austin was an empresario

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T or F: the Mexican government assumed that the American settlers in Texas would eventually come to see Mexico as their own country

Answer 4

True

Question 5

T or F: when Haden Edwards declared the American settlements in Texas to be an independent nation, he recruited Stephen Austin to lead an American militia against the Mexican army

Answer 5

False

Question 6

T or F: At their second convention, the Texas settlers recommended separating Texas from Coahuila and joining the US as a new state

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The Texans won their first victory against the Mexican army at the Alamo

Answer 7

False

Question 8

James K Polk agreed to split HBD Oregon territory with Great Britain

Answer 8

True

Question 9

First president of the republic of Texas

Answer 9

Sam Houston

Question 10

Captured in the battle of San Jacinto

Answer 10

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 11

Went to Mexico City to negotiate with the government

Answer 11

Stephen Austin

Question 12

Site of the execution of more than 300 texans

Answer 12

Goliad

Question 13

Name Haden Edwards gave to the American settlements in Texas after declaring them an independent nation

Answer 13

Fredonia

Question 14

Abandoned Spanish mission where a small force of texans held off the Mexican army for 13 days before being overrun

Answer 14

The Alamo

Question 15

Mexican commander who executed the texans after his request for clemency was refused

Answer 15

Santa Anna

Question 16

Site of attack that ended the Texas revolution

Answer 16

San Jacinto

Question 17

Commander of the force of texans at the Alamo

Answer 17

William b Travis

Question 18

Site of the texans first victory over the Mexican army

Answer 18

San Jacinto

Question 19

Led the Mormons west to escape further persecution

Answer 19

Brigham young

Question 20

Mountain man and trailblazer

Answer 20

Jim Bridger

Question 21

Magazine editor who coined the term “Manifest Destiny”

Answer 21

John Louis o’Sullivan

Question 22

German immigrant whose trading post and cattle ranch was often the first stopping point for Americans reaching California

Answer 22

John Sutter

Question 23

Engineered a plow with a slick, sharp edged steel blades that cut cleanly through the sod

Answer 23

John Deere

Question 24

Patented the mechanical reaper in 1834

Answer 24

Cyrus McCormick