Moving West and the 4 Trails Flashcards
Who did the Spanish governor give a land grant to start a colony in Texas?
Moses Austin
Who was Mose’s son?
Stephen Austin
What were the 3 requirements to start the colony ?
1) become Mexican Citizens
2) Worship the Roman Catholic Church
3) No slaves
Does Stephen Austin follow the 3 requirements?
no
What does Mexico do when they found out Stephen Austin was breaking the rules?
They levy high taxes and forces Texans to follow stricter laws
Who takes over Mexico in 1833 and becomes a Dictator?
General Antonio Lopez Santa Anna
What was The Alamo ?
An old broken down mission (symbol)
How many people defended The Alamo?
185
Who was Davey Crockett
Tennessen, raccoon hat, same as Andrew Jackson- came from nothing and became something
What were the 2 famous people from the Alamo
Davey Crockett and Jim Browie
Who leads the surprise attack and captures Santa Anna after 18 minutes?
Sam Houston
What does the Capture of Santa Anna lead to?
The treaty giving Texas it’s freedom
Who offered cash to:
1) settle the disputes over the Rio Grande River
2) Buy California
3) Rest of the Mexican Cession
James K. Polk
Who does Polk send down to provoke an attack?
General Zachary Taylor
Why did the South want to go to war?
to get another slave state
Why did the West want to go to war?
To keep expanding
Why did the North not want to go to war?
More slave states
Who captures Monterey and San Francisco and by 1847 ,all of California is under American control?
Taylor
What ended the Mexican-American War in 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What was the purchase that gave America the small strip of land in present day New Mexico and Arizona in 1853?
Gadsden Purchase
What is Manifest Destiny ?
Spreading out west because God wants us to
What are the four trails?
Santa Fe, Oregon, Mormon,and Gold Rush
Which trail was created to trade with Mexico?
Santa Fe
Who was a Wealthy business man/fur trader?
John Jacob Astor
What did John Jacob Astor help to find?
the South Pass
Who first blazed the trail by trying to spread Christianitiy?
Whitman’s
How did America get Oregon?
54-40 to fight winning Oregon over a drunken poker game
Who founded the Church of Latter-Day Saints ( Mormon)?
Joseph Smith
Were the Mormons liked?
no and Joseph Smith is murdered
Why didn’t people like Mormons ?
Because of their idea that “what is mine is yours” and polygamy
What is polygamy?
more than 1 wife
Who decided to leave and go where they could be left alone?
Brigham Young
Where do the Mormons go?
Salt Lake City Utah
What was the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
A series of attacks that resulted in the murder of 120 people on an emigrant wagon train
Did non-mormons have representation in their community ?
no
Only when this happened Utah could become a state.
the Mormon’s banned polygamy and welcome others (1896)
Where was gold found?
on John Sutter’s Land in California
Where did a lot of foreign people come from and why ?
China because of the gold
