Expansion (Chapters 8, 9 and 10)

Question 1

Santa Anna

Answer 1

-Mexican President
-invaded Texas

a Mexican soldier, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th president of Mexico multiple times between 1833 and 1855

Question 2

Frederick Douglas

Answer 2

-Escaped slave/leader of liberty

an African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author

Question 3

“The Liberator”

Answer 3

-William Lloyd Garrison
-newspaper against slavery

weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years

Question 4

James K. Polk

Answer 4

-11th
-wants to add Texas/NM/Cali
-1 term
-Secured Oregon terr. Treaty of Oregon from Britain
-Cali and NM
-Reduced tariffs

the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849

Question 5

Kit Carson

Answer 5

-Navajo raid
-Long walk of Navajo

an American frontiersman, trapper, soldier and Indian agent who made important contributions to the westward expansion of the United States

Question 6

Nat Turner

Answer 6

-after his rebellion, it became illegal to teach Africans
-Most influential

an enslaved Black American who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history

Question 7

Sutter’s Mill

Answer 7

-Gold
-300000 people move to California
-49ers

a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California

Question 8

Horace Mann

Answer 8

-Started public school systems

US editor and politician

Question 9

Winfield Scott

Answer 9

-Vera Cruz

an American military commander and political candidate

Question 10

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 10

-“The Liberator”
-abolitionists (against slavery)

an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer

Question 11

Battle of San Jacinto

Answer 11

-Sam Houston led
-Pres. of Republic of Texas

the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution

Question 12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 12

-Seneca Falls

an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women’s rights movement in the U.S. in the 19th century and formulated the first demand for women’s suffrage in 1848

Question 13

Dorothea Dix

Answer 13

-fought for mental illness awareness
-helped separate mentally ill from criminals in prisons

an American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian

Question 14

Mexican War

Answer 14

-President James K. Polk (11th) wants to add Texas/NM/Cali
-Stephen Kearny seized New Mexico
-Winfield Scott (Vera Cruz)
-Guadalupe Hidalgo & Gadsden Purchase

an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848

Question 15

Forty-Niners

Answer 15

-Very few rich
-Population boost

a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849

Question 16

Harriet Tubman

Answer 16

-The Underground Railroad
-Network built to help slaves escape
-made 19 trips and saved 300 slaves

an American abolitionist and social activist

Question 17

Sam Houston

Answer 17

-led the Battle of San Jacinto
-Pres. of Republic of Texas

an American general and statesman

Question 18

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 18

-US bought land from Mexico
-$10 Million
-attempt at peace

a transaction in 1853 where the United States acquired a strip of territory from Mexico

Question 19

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 19

-Ends war
-Mexican Cession
-California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona

ended the Mexican-American War and ceded a significant portion of Mexico’s territory to the United States

Question 20

Davy Crockett

Answer 20

-defended the Alamo

US frontiersman, soldier, and politician

Question 21

Irish

Answer 21

-take any job, Dangerous/Low pay

relating to Ireland, its people, or the Celtic language traditionally and historically spoken there

Question 22

Germans

Answer 22

-take any job, Dangerous/Low pay

the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language

Question 23

Mormons

Answer 23

-Joseph Smith
-Plural Marriage

a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s

Question 24

Whigs

Answer 24

-supported the American Revolution
-hated King Andrew

an American colonist who supported the American Revolution

Question 25

Oregon Territory

Answer 25

-Secured by President Polk Treaty of Oregon from Britain

an organized incorporated territory of the United States

Question 26

Lyman Beecher

Answer 26

-Fiery Preacher against alcohol

a Presbyterian minister

Question 27

Seneca Falls

Answer 27

-Fight for Women’s Rights
-led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

the first women’s rights convention in the United States

Question 28

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 28

-Transcendentalism

naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher

Question 29

Manifest Destiny

Answer 29

-John O’Sullivan
-justified/inevitable
-Western Hemisphere
-1800 pop: 5 mill, 1850 pop: 23 mill
-Destiny out west

the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent

Question 30

Abolitionists

Answer 30

-against slavery

a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery