Moving West and the 4 Trails

Question 1

Who did the Spanish governor give a land grant to start a colony in Texas?

Answer 1

Moses Austin

Question 2

Who was Mose’s son?

Answer 2

Stephen Austin

Question 3

What were the 3 requirements to start the colony ?

Answer 3

1) become Mexican Citizens
2) Worship the Roman Catholic Church
3) No slaves

Question 4

Does Stephen Austin follow the 3 requirements?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

What does Mexico do when they found out Stephen Austin was breaking the rules?

Answer 5

They levy high taxes and forces Texans to follow stricter laws

Question 6

Who takes over Mexico in 1833 and becomes a Dictator?

Answer 6

General Antonio Lopez Santa Anna

Question 7

What was The Alamo ?

Answer 7

An old broken down mission (symbol)

Question 8

How many people defended The Alamo?

Answer 8

185

Question 9

Who was Davey Crockett

Answer 9

Tennessen, raccoon hat, same as Andrew Jackson- came from nothing and became something

Question 10

What were the 2 famous people from the Alamo

Answer 10

Davey Crockett and Jim Browie

Question 11

Who leads the surprise attack and captures Santa Anna after 18 minutes?

Answer 11

Sam Houston

Question 12

What does the Capture of Santa Anna lead to?

Answer 12

The treaty giving Texas it’s freedom

Question 13

Who offered cash to:

1) settle the disputes over the Rio Grande River
2) Buy California
3) Rest of the Mexican Cession

Answer 13

James K. Polk

Question 14

Who does Polk send down to provoke an attack?

Answer 14

General Zachary Taylor

Question 15

Why did the South want to go to war?

Answer 15

to get another slave state

Question 16

Why did the West want to go to war?

Answer 16

To keep expanding

Question 17

Why did the North not want to go to war?

Answer 17

More slave states

Question 18

Who captures Monterey and San Francisco and by 1847 ,all of California is under American control?

Answer 18

Taylor

Question 19

What ended the Mexican-American War in 1848

Answer 19

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 20

What was the purchase that gave America the small strip of land in present day New Mexico and Arizona in 1853?

Answer 20

Gadsden Purchase

Question 21

What is Manifest Destiny ?

Answer 21

Spreading out west because God wants us to

Question 22

What are the four trails?

Answer 22

Santa Fe, Oregon, Mormon,and Gold Rush

Question 23

Which trail was created to trade with Mexico?

Answer 23

Santa Fe

Question 24

Who was a Wealthy business man/fur trader?

Answer 24

John Jacob Astor

Question 25

What did John Jacob Astor help to find?

Answer 25

the South Pass

Question 26

Who first blazed the trail by trying to spread Christianitiy?

Answer 26

Whitman’s

Question 27

How did America get Oregon?

Answer 27

54-40 to fight winning Oregon over a drunken poker game

Question 28

Who founded the Church of Latter-Day Saints ( Mormon)?

Answer 28

Joseph Smith

Question 29

Were the Mormons liked?

Answer 29

no and Joseph Smith is murdered

Question 30

Why didn’t people like Mormons ?

Answer 30

Because of their idea that “what is mine is yours” and polygamy

Question 31

What is polygamy?

Answer 31

more than 1 wife

Question 32

Who decided to leave and go where they could be left alone?

Answer 32

Brigham Young

Question 33

Where do the Mormons go?

Answer 33

Salt Lake City Utah

Question 34

What was the Mountain Meadows Massacre?

Answer 34

A series of attacks that resulted in the murder of 120 people on an emigrant wagon train

Question 35

Did non-mormons have representation in their community ?

Answer 35

no

Question 36

Only when this happened Utah could become a state.

Answer 36

the Mormon’s banned polygamy and welcome others (1896)

Question 37

Where was gold found?

Answer 37

on John Sutter’s Land in California

Question 38

Where did a lot of foreign people come from and why ?

Answer 38

China because of the gold