Manifest Desitny Quiz over Guided Questions 1

Question 1

List the modern states that are a part of the once claimed Spanish southwest.

Answer 1

Texas 
New Mexico
Arizona 
California 
Colorado 
Utah 
Nevada

Question 2

What leader would lead a group of mainly white settlers and families to Texas?

Answer 2

Moses Austin

Question 3

What were the conditions that the Spanish government put on for American settlers who wanted to settle Texas?

Answer 3

• Become Mexican citizens
• Become members of the Roman Catholic Church
• Learn Spanish
• No slaves allowed

Question 4

Who were the Tejanos?

Answer 4

People of the Spanish heritage that consider Texas as their home

Question 5

Name 3 reasons why Americans were coming to Texas

Answer 5

• New life
• Escape the law
• Looking for a chance to grow rich

Question 6

What practice did southern settlers bring to Texas, that was outlawed by the New Mexican government

Answer 6

Slavery

Question 7

By 1830, how many settlers had moved to Texas?

Answer 7

30,000

outnumbering Tejanos 6 to 1

Question 8

What did Mexican leader Santa Anna do when the new settlers did not abide by his laws?

Answer 8

He close the state to further American immigrants and sent Mexican troops to Texas

Question 9

List the seven trends in antebellum America in the early 1800’s.

Answer 9

1. New intellectual religious movements
2. Social reforms
3. Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America
4. Re-emerge of a second party system and more politely democratization
5. Increase in federal power, Marshall Ct. decisions
6. Increase in American nationalism
7. Further westward expansion