Long Question Module 12 Lesson 1&2

Question 1

Who hired empresarios?

Answer 1

The NEW Mexican government

Question 2

What River did Stephen F. Austin start a colony on in 1822?

Answer 2

Lower Colorado River

Question 3

Who became ruler of Mexico in 1830?

Answer 3

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 4

What was the region of Mexico known as?

Answer 4

American Southwest

Question 5

What empire was Mexico part of?

Answer 5

The Spanish Empire

Question 6

Did the revolt led by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810 work?

Answer 6

No it failed

Question 7

What did Antoni Lopez de Santa Anna do when he came into power?

Answer 7

suspended Mexico’s constitution.

Question 8

Where was the Texans revolt?

Answer 8

Battle at Gonzales, Texas

Question 9

What happened when Texans declared independence?

Answer 9

The Republic of Texas was estabished

Question 10

Who was named head of the Texas army?

Answer 10

Sam Houston

Question 11

Why did Stephen F. Austin go to the United States?

Answer 11

To seek money and Troops

Question 12

What started the Battle at the Alamo?

Answer 12

The Texans actions angered Mexican leader Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 13

Who led the Texans in the Battle at the Alamo?

Answer 13

Colonel Jim Travis

Question 14

What ended the Battle at the Alamo?

Answer 14

On March 6, 1836 all Texas defenders killed in Mexican attack.

Question 15

Who lead the Texans in the Battle of San Jacinto?

Answer 15

Sam Houston

Question 16

who won the Battle at the alamo?

Answer 16

Mexican forces

Question 17

Who won the Battle of San jacinto?

Answer 17

Texan forces

Question 18

What happened after Texans won the Battle of San Jacinto?

Answer 18

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna signed a treaty giving independence to Texas.

Question 19

What became of Sam Houston since he was the hero of the Texas forces?

Answer 19

Sam Houston was elected president

Question 20

Who became secretary of state for Texas?

Answer 20

Stephen F. Austin

Question 21

What did Texas do to increase the population?

Answer 21

Texas offered land grants to new settlers. Many from nearby southern states brought enslaved Africans with them.

Question 22

Why did President Jackson did not take control of Texas?

Answer 22

But did not want to upset balance between slave and free states by letting a slave state enter the Union.

Question 23

Why was the U.S. looking for more land in the West?

Answer 23

The U.S. needed more space for farms, ranches, businesses, and families

Question 24

What did some people believe that it was the U.S. what to settle in all of the land to the Pacific?

Answer 24

Manifest Destiny

Question 25

What was the most important state for Mexico in their mission system and why?

Answer 25

The mission system was important in California, carrying out huge farming and ranching operations using Native American labor.

Question 26

What was also organized with Oregon being added to the territory of the U.S.?

Answer 26

negotiated treaty for land south of forty-ninth parallel

Question 27

After losing Texas what other present-day areas did Mexico control?

Answer 27

Southwest—New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California.

Question 28

What did Mexico's missions systems do?

Answer 28

— Land grants given to wealthiest California settlers — Created vast ranchos, or ranches

Question 29

What states did John Slidell try to buy for $30 million?

Answer 29

New Mexico and California

Question 30

What happened after Mexico refused the $30 million for the two states?

Answer 30

Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor and his army into the border region around the Rio Grande in 1846.

Question 31

Where did President James K. Polk send General Zachary Taylor and his troops?

Answer 31

region border around the Rio Grande

Question 32

After Polk sent General Zachary Taylor and his troops what happened?

Answer 32

U.S. troops clashed with Mexicans in April

Question 33

After U.S. troops clashed with Mexicans what happened?

Answer 33

Congress declared was on Mexico in April

Question 34

Who won the war against Mexico and the U.S.?

Answer 34

Taylor's forces won battles south of the Rio Grande in Mexico

Question 35

After the U.S. won the Battles against Mexico what did the U.S. gain?

Answer 35

General Stephen Kearny seized control of New Mexico.

Question 36

What started the Bear Flag Revolt?

Answer 36

Americans seized Sonoma and declared California to be an independent nation on June 14, starting the Bear Flag Revolt.

Question 37

What did America seize during the Bear Flag Revolt?

Answer 37

Sonoma

Question 38

What happened during the Bear Flage Revolt?

Answer 38

California was claimed for the United States

Question 39

Who did General Taylor's forces defeat in February 1847?

Answer 39

Mexican army under Santa Anna at Buena Vista

Question 40

What happened during the War at Veracruz?

Answer 40

General Winfield Scott’s forces seized the port of Veracruz in March 1847. Veracruz was the strongest fortress in Mexico.

Question 41

What happened to the War at Mexico City?

Answer 41

Scott’s troops took Mexico City in September 1847 after a brave defense by Mexican soldiers.

Question 42

What officially ended all of the wars with Mexico?

Answer 42

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 43

Mexican territory included what?

Answer 43

present-day California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.

Question 44

What were the people in the territory of Mexican areas were what?

Answer 44

“Protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property and secured in the free exercise of their religion.”

Question 45

What did the Gadsden Purchase do?

Answer 45

It gave southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S. for $10 million

Question 46

What was California's main population?

Answer 46

Mexican and Native Americans

Question 47

What was John Sutters colony popular for?

Answer 47

rest stop for immigrants

Question 48

Where was the Donner Party traveling to?

Answer 48

California

Question 49

Where did the Donner Party get lost in and why?

Answer 49

Sierra Nevada because of heavy snows

Question 50

Why did most of the Donner party die?

Answer 50

starvation

Question 51

Who were the 80,000 gold-seekers that went to California in 1849?

Answer 51

Forty-niners

Question 52

What were miners mostly like?

Answer 52

young, unmarried men in search of adventure

Question 53

What job that helped miners were good for woman and made them good money?

Answer 53

cooking meals, washing clothes, and operating boardinghouses for miners

Question 54

What caused inflation in California?

Answer 54

the huge amount of gold in circulation

Question 55

In 1852 California placed a high monthly tax on who?

Answer 55

foreign miners

Question 56

What type of immigrants arrived in California in 1849?

Answer 56

China, Europe, Mexico, and South America.

Question 57

The growth of California had a negative impact on who?

Answer 57

Californios and Native Americans

Question 58

Most of the Forty-niners arrived in what city in California?

Answer 58

San Francisco

Question 59

At Buena Vista what happened during the war?

Answer 59

The Mexican army had fled overnight. It was a fierce battle with heavy casualties on both sides.