Test - English

Question 1

What four nations all laid claim to the Oregon Territory?

Answer 1

United States, Great Britain, Spain, Russia.

Question 2

What two countries jointly occupied Oregon between 1819 and 1843?

Answer 2

United States and Great Britain

Question 3

What were three conditions people had to agree upon before they could receive a land grant in Texas from Mexico?

Answer 3

Become Mexico citizens, convert to Catholicism, obey Mexican laws

Question 4

What caused the Texas Revolution?

Answer 4

To seek independence

Question 5

Define “manifest destiny”

Answer 5

The belief that it was America God given right to spread out over and posses the entire continent.

Question 6

Why did the USA originally refuse to annex Texas?

Answer 6

For the slavery debate, Fear of war with Mexico and concerns over expansion

Question 7

Discuss three reasons why people went west

Answer 7

For the Economic Opportunities, Religious Freedom, Manifest Destiny Belief

Question 8

What was know as the “Highway to the Southwest”?

Answer 8

Santa Fe Trail

Question 9

What were the major results of the Battle of the Alamo?

Answer 9

Inspiration for Texan independence, Motivation for the Texas Army and increased Support for Texas independence

Question 10

What were the two results of the Mexican-American War?

Answer 10

The territorial Expansion and Heightened Sectional tensions

Question 11

What two impacts did “Manifest Destiny” have on the Native American population?

Answer 11

1-Forced Relocation. 2- conflict and decline

Question 12

List the 4 results of the California God Rush

Answer 12

1- Population Boom. 2- Economic Growth. 3- Diverse immigration. 4- Environmental Impact.

Question 13

What were the major results of Manifest Destiny? (Good and Bad)

Answer 13

Good: territorial Expansion,Economic Opportunities.

Bad: Displacement and Suffering of Native Americans, Expansion of Slavery.

Question 14

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 14

Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

Question 15

pathfinders

Answer 15

Explorers who mapped routes across the American west

Question 16

Forty-niners

Answer 16

Gold seekers who rushed to California in 1849

Question 17

Pioneers

Answer 17

Early settler who moved westward for new opportunities

Question 18

Vigilante

Answer 18

Self-oppointed citizens enforcing law

Question 19

Rendezvous

Answer 19

Annual meeting of fur trappers and traders

Question 20

Ghost town

Answer 20

Abandoned town

Question 21

Tejanos

Answer 21

Mexican residents of Texas

Question 22

Boom Town

Answer 22

Rapidly growing town due to economic opportunity

Question 23

Mountain Men

Answer 23

Fur trappers and explorers of the American west

Question 24

Empresario

Answer 24

Businessmen

Question 25

Tejas

Answer 25

Spanish name for Texas

Question 26

Lone Star Republic

Answer 26

Nickname for Texas in 1836

Question 27

Mexican Cession

Answer 27

Land ceded by Mexico to the US in 1848

Question 28

Annex

Answer 28

To add territory to a country

Question 29

Old Three Hundred

Answer 29

First 300 American families settled in Texas by Stephen F. Austin

Question 30

San Jacinto

Answer 30

Decisive battle in the Texas Revolution

Question 31

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 31

1853 purchase of land from Mexico.

Question 32

Californios

Answer 32

Mexican residents of California before it became part of the US

Question 33

American River

Answer 33

Site in California where gold was first discovered in 1848