(Lecture 17) The West and the Problem of Slavery

Question 1

What is the Lone Star Republic?

Answer 1

Texas

Question 2

who made a deal with Mexico for 300 families to move into Mexican territory in 1821?

Answer 2

Moses Austin

Question 3

Who was Moses’ son?

Answer 3

Stephen Austin

Question 4

How many settlers had moved to ‘Texas’ by 1825?

Answer 4

30,000

Question 5

What was the obvious divide between the settlers and Mexico?

Answer 5

Protestants and Catholics

Question 6

When and why was Stephen thrown in jail?

Answer 6

1833 (Mexico City).
for trying to bargain to keep slavery

Question 7

who was the Mexican dictator?

Answer 7

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 8

When did the Texans declare a provisional govt?

Answer 8

1836

Question 9

who was the Texan army leader?

Answer 9

Sam Houston

Question 10

did the Texan Constitution protect slavery?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

why was it hard for Texas to join the Union?

Answer 11

Missouri Compromise meant no more slave states and they had no free states ready to join

Question 12

who recognised the independent republic of Texas on his last day in office?

Answer 12

Jackson

Question 13

How many immigrants to Texas in next 10 years?

Answer 13

100,000

Question 14

Which President allowed Texas to join Union?

Answer 14

John Tyler

Question 15

What was the Overland Trail?

Answer 15

Path west
used to go to Oregon
$600 cost, stopped the poor
6 months

Question 16

How many made the trip west between 1820 and 1867?

Answer 16

350,000

Question 17

What was the problem with the trail?

Answer 17

through NA lands
NA’s sometimes attacked the wagons

Question 18

when did the federal govt agree to pay the Indians compensation?

Answer 18

1841

Question 19

Who was Tyler before President?

Answer 19

Harrison’s VP

Question 20

What was the issue that Tyler ran against?

Answer 20

annexation of Texas

Question 21

what did the south think about the annexation of Texas?

Answer 21

that it would block the expansion of slavery

Question 22

who did Tyler back once he left the running?

Answer 22

Polk

Question 23

What was Polk’s platform?

Answer 23

seizure of Oregon from Britain, annexation of Texas and California

Question 24

when was manifest destiny coined?

Answer 24

1844

Question 25

what was the manifest destiny about?

Answer 25

a divine mission of spreading freedom and democracy wherever it went

Question 26

When was Texas admitted?

Answer 26

1846 as Iowa was admitted as a free state

Question 27

When was Oregon divided?

Answer 27

1846

Question 28

When was the Mexican-American war?

Answer 28

1846-47

Question 29

What was the Wilmot Proviso (1846)?

Answer 29

Barred slavery from Mexican land acquisition.
position of anti-slavery but not pro-slave.
Argued free whites couldn’t compete with slave system.

Question 30

what did anti-slavery advocates argue?

Answer 30

slavery could continue in south but couldn’t expand west

Question 31

what was the Bear Flag Republic?

Answer 31

California from 1847
Mexico City defeated

Question 32

When was the California Gold Rush?

Answer 32

1849

Question 33

How many went to California by boat for gold?

Answer 33

25,000

Question 34

What was California’s population in 1849 and 1860?

Answer 34

14,000 to 380,000

Question 35

Who moved to California?

Answer 35

New-Englanders, Chinese, Irish, Mexicans, AAs

Question 36

what percentage of female Californians in 1850 were prostitutes?

Answer 36

20%

Question 37

What was the Compromise of 1850? (4 components)

Answer 37

California a free state.
Utah and New Mexico federal territories with popular sovereignty.
Slave trade banned in D.C.
Passage of new, national fugitive slave law.

Question 38

who passed the Compromise in 1850?

Answer 38

Zachary Taylor