unit 10 manifest destiny

Question 1

transcendentalists

Answer 1

small group of intellectuals had a great deal of influence

Question 2

transcendentalists example

Answer 2

ralph waldo emerson
henry david thoreau
bronson alcott
margaret fuller

Question 3

who was the first secretary of the new state board of education

Answer 3

horace mann

Question 4

how many public high schools in country

Answer 4

300

Question 5

how many public high schools in MA

Answer 5

100

Question 6

1st college for women

Answer 6

Wesleyan College in Georgia

Question 7

1st co-ed college

Answer 7

Oberlin College (ohio)

Question 8

dorothea dix

Answer 8

young boston school teacher

eventually worked with mental illness people to provide them with equal education

Question 9

industrial revolution for women

Answer 9

freed women from making necessary items for home + family

women could afford to buy cheaper manufactured goods

Question 10

leaders of organized women’s rights conventions in NY

Answer 10

Lucretius mott
elizabeth candy stanton
susan b. anthony
sojourner truth - former slave who have a speech about the equality of women

Question 11

how did new york lead other states to reforms for women

Answer 11

giving women control over their own property
share guardianship of their own children
right to sur
divorce laws liberalized

Question 12

cyrus mcCormick

Answer 12

reaper - mechanized harvesting

Question 13

john deere

Answer 13

steal plow

Question 14

who started american settlements in texas

Answer 14

stephen austin

Question 15

name of the americans who moved to texas

Answer 15

anglo - texans

Question 16

who seized mexico city and took power

Answer 16

santa anna

Question 17

autonomy

Answer 17

independent control over own affairs

Question 18

lone star

Answer 18

new texas nation with a flag of a single star

Question 19

“remember the alamo”

Answer 19

became a sign for cause of independence

santa anna went to crush the alamo

Question 20

who design a trap for santa anna and then captured him

Answer 20

sam houston

Question 21

election if 1844 candidates

Answer 21

whigs: harrison
but not truly running just the so people don’t forget about the whigs
“his accidency”

democrats: polk
dark horse

liberty party

Question 22

dark house

Answer 22

unknown candidate

Question 23

polk slogan

Answer 23

“54 40 or fight”

Question 24

liberty party

Answer 24

small, anti slavery party

Question 25

manifest destiny

Answer 25

It is white male americans’ right to expand from border to border of the United States of American

Question 26

“54 40 or fight”

Answer 26

reference to oregon territory northern border polk did not want to fight with britain because they were already fighting with Mexico

Question 27

cause of the mexican war

Answer 27

dispute over the southern border of texas mexico wanted nueces river US wanted Rio Grande River

Question 28

bear flag revolt

Answer 28

led by John C. Fremont declared an independent republic of california hurt the already weak mexico

Question 29

who did polk send to fight to mexican war

Answer 29

zachary taylor

Question 30

who captures mexico city

Answer 30

general winfield scott

Question 31

treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

Answer 31

ended mexican war mexico gave claims to TX CA and NM

Question 32

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 32

mexico sold southern NM and AZ for $10 million believed it be best railroad route across rockies to the pacific

Question 33

wilmer proviso

Answer 33

author - David Willmot from PA states that slavery would be forbidden in new territories acquired through Mexico pass in house, failed in Senate (circulated for 15 years)

Question 34

Chapultepec

Answer 34

fortress above Mexico City defenders included 6 young cadets ranging from 13-19 known as LOS NINOS HEROES

Question 35

California Gold Rush

Answer 35

mass migration of 80,000 fortune seekers to CA

Question 36

name of people in gold rush

Answer 36

forty-miners

Question 37

placed mining

Answer 37

miners used cheap metal picks pans and shovels to harvest gold flecks from the sand along the bank and bottom of rivers and streams

Question 38

hydraulic mining

Answer 38

employed jets of water that rose gravel hills into long like of sluices to cage the gold damaged the environment

Question 39

hard rock mining

Answer 39

for those with most money searching in the mountains for veins of quartz that contained gold miners got the gold by digging deep tunnels and shafts braced with posts and beams drained by posts

Question 40

who made the most money during the gold rush

Answer 40

the merchants who sold clothing and food to the poor miners

Question 41

conditions for miners

Answer 41

poor sanitation disease killed 100s - chordane - dysentery

Question 42

effects of gold rush

Answer 42

high tax on foreign miners to discourage Chinese miners drove NA away by terrorizing them mexican americans were forced to pay the foreigners tax even though they were there first CA wanted to become a state

Question 43

mountain me

Answer 43

daring young american trappers who hunted for beaver belts in the rocky mountains

Question 44

santa fe trail

Answer 44

the trade route that reached to mexico city

Question 45

expansionists

Answer 45

people who favored territorial growth

Question 46

oregon trail

Answer 46

founded by marcus and narcissus wittman found an indian trail at Walla Walla

Question 47

brigham young

Answer 47

led to mormons across the great plains and rockies to establish New Zion

Question 48

treaty of fort laramie

Answer 48

1851 bound the indians to move their territories away from the major trails

Question 49

who led the government expedition that led to wagons

Answer 49

john c frémont

Question 50

where were most of the wagons from

Answer 50

midwest/missouri

Question 51

1st to attempt to set up a permanent settlement in Oregon

Answer 51

John Jacob Astor

Question 52

who los a small group into oregon country

Answer 52

nathaniel wyeth

Question 53

who came up with the idea for manifest destiny

Answer 53

john l o’sullivan

Question 54

Franciscan Priest who set up a string of missionaries in CA

Answer 54

junípero serra

Question 55

created of California trail | crossed great basin and sierra nevada to reach CA

Answer 55

jedediah smith

Question 56

treaty that moved indians away from major trails

Answer 56

treaty of fort laramie