James Polk

Question 1

California Gold Rush

Answer 1

• gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.

Question 2

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 2

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrecia Mott, issued a document called the Declaration of Sentiments declaring men and women ere equal and campaigned for equal voting, legal, and property rights

Question 3

The North Star-

Answer 3

Fredrick Douglass’s newspaper about abolition of slavery

Question 4

Free Soil Party-

Answer 4

wanted to abolish slavery and advocate free homesteads and internal improvements (free soil, labor , and men)

Question 5

Oregon Territory-

Answer 5

the United States ought to claim all the territory up to 54 degrees and 40 minutes north parallel or fight Great Britain for the land

Question 6

Mexican American War-

Answer 6

Causes-Mexican unwillingness to recognize Texas independence, the desire of Texans for statehood, and American desire for westward expansion, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil.

Question 7

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-

Answer 7

which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-48), was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city to which the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces

Question 8

Mexican Cession-

Answer 8

Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado