Final Exam Flashcards
Consequences of Westward
Expansion
- Decimation of Native Americans
- Expansion of Market Revolution
- Opening of the Frontier (Free men could make it on their own)
- Explosion of Slavery on the American Political Stage
Phase 2 1844-1860
- Election of James K Polk
- Nationalistic Phase
- Manifest Destiny
Phase 1 1820-1844
Americans move west WITHOUT government permision
Texas
- Extremely Popular
- 1820/1830 10,000 Americans migrate to TX
- William B Travis and Stephen F. Austin start Impesario System (4,000 acres of land)
- 1829 Mexico abolished slavery
- 1829/1834 Santa Anna becomes president/dictator
Stephen F. Austin
Led over 300 families to Texas
James Bowie
Ran from his past (Fake land deeds)
Davy Crockett
- Congressman from Tennessee
- Came to Texas looking for an adventure
Empresario System
Offered land for credit to help migration to Texas
Santa Anna
- Mexican Dictator
- Leads Battle of Alamo
Sam Houston
- Leader of the Texas Army
- Rough man / Was a drunk
Alamo
- Santa Anna leads 5,000 against James Bowie and Davy Crockett
- Santa Anna sieges and takes the Alamo
- Alamo becomes a source of INSPIRATION for Texans
San Jacinto
- Sam Houston surprises Anna
- Anna forced to sign treaties with Texas
- New Constitution:
- Slavery is legal
- Bans free slaves from moving to Texas
- Texas becomes a republic from 1834-1845
Oregon Trail
Settlers landed in Independence, MO
Utah / Mormons
- Living in Illinois, non-Mormons upset with Joseph Smith and kill him
- Move west to Salt Lake
- Brigham Young new leader
- Polygamy
Joseph Smith
- First leader of the Mormons
- Arrested and the killed by a lynch mob
Brigham Young
- Moved Mormons to Utah
- New leader of the Mormons after Joseph Smith
Manifest Destiny
Belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
Oregon Trail
- Route from Missouri to Oregon
- Started by Fur trappers and traders
- Only Horseback and on foot until 1836
1848 - Gold
- Gold rush
- 49ers
- California wasn’t all Americans
Forty-Niner’s
- Gold Miners
- Only lasted for 5 years
- 800 Americans and 1200 Mexicans
Ft. Laramie Treaty
Compensate Plains Indians as long as they stop attacking
-Placed into the badlands / black hills
William Lloyd Garrison
- Abolitionist
- The Liberator
- Believed in Immediate emancipation
Guadalupe Hildago
- Mexico recognize Texas border as Rio Grande
- President Polk WANTED to provoke war
- Pays Mexico 15 mill for CA, NV, UT and parts of AZ, NM and CO
Mexican War
Mexican soldiers kill 12 Americans and Polk has a reason for war
Harriet Tubman
- Civil rights activist
- Led slaves through underground railroad
- Spy for the union
Underground Railroad
Secret routes and safe houses used to free slaves