Expanding Markets and Moving West - Chapter 9

Question 1

In farming, the raising of one or two crops for sale rather than a variety of foods for personal use

Answer 1

Specialization

Question 2

Economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves

Answer 2

Market Revolution

Question 3

Economic system in which individuals and businesses control the means of production

Answer 3

Capitalism

Question 4

Business owner

Answer 4

Entrepreneur

Question 5

Inventor of the telegraph

Answer 5

Samuel F.B. Morse

Question 6

Device that sends messages by wires

Answer 6

telegraph

Question 7

Inventor of the steel plow

Answer 7

John Deere

Question 8

Inventor of the mechanical reaper

Answer 8

Cyrus McCormick

Question 9

Belief that the United States would expand across the continent

Answer 9

Manifest destiny

Question 10

Treaty that gave Native Americans control of the central plains

Answer 10

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Question 11

Trail from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico

Answer 11

Santa Fe Trial

Question 12

Trail from Missouri to Oregon

Answer 12

Oregon Trial

Question 13

Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City

Answer 13

Mormons

Question 14

Founder and leader of the Mormons

Answer 14

Joseph Smith

Question 15

Leader of the Mormons who decided to move the group west to Utah

Answer 15

Brigham Young

Question 16

Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call fro U.S. annexation of the Oregon Territory

Answer 16

“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”

Question 17

Leader of American colony in Texas

Answer 17

Stephen F. Austin

Question 18

Gift of public land to an individual or organization

Answer 18

Land grant

Question 19

Mexican president who fought Texans in the Texas Revolution

Answer 19

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Question 20

Texas Revolution

Answer 20

Texas’s war for Independence from Mexico

Question 21

Site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution

Answer 21

Alamo

Question 22

First president of the Republic of Texas

Answer 22

Sam Houston

Question 23

Independent nation that was created after Texans defeated Mexico in the Texas Revolution

Answer 23

Republic of Texas

Question 24

To make part of, incorporate

Answer 24

Annex

Question 25

11th president

Answer 25

James K. Polk

Question 26

American general in war with Mexico and 12th president

Answer 26

Zachary Taylor

Question 27

American general in war with Mexico

Answer 27

Stephen Kearny

Question 28

Nation declared by American settlers after defeating Mexicans

Answer 28

Republic of California

Question 29

American general in war with Mexico

Answer 29

Winfield Scott

Question 30

Treaty ending the War with Mexico

Answer 30

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 31

Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-Mexico boundary

Answer 31

Gadsden Purchase

Question 32

People who came to California in 1849 in search of gold

Answer 32

Forty-niners

Question 33

Movement of people to a place in which gold has been discovered

Answer 33

Gold rush