Unit 7 - - Expansion and Crisis

Question 0

During whose presidency did the US boundary stretch ONLY to the western edge of Louisiana - - he was President after William Henry Harrison in 1841?

Answer 0

John Tyler

Question 1

During whose Presidency did the boundaries of the nation stretch all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 1

James K Polk

Question 2

What was the 28th state in the Union - and caused a severe stain in the political relations between the United States and Mexico?

Answer 2

Texas

Question 3

What term means that Americans had a “God given right” to expand its culture across the country?

Answer 3

Manifest Destiny

Question 4

What territory did the United States want so badly that we created the slogan - - “Fifty-four Forty or fight”?

Answer 4

Oregon

Question 5

What is the name of battle where Texas won it independence?

Answer 5

San Jacinto

Question 6

What is the name of the man who started the first settlement in Texas in 1821?

Answer 6

Stephen F. Austin

Question 7

Who was elected president - then made himself the DICTATOR of Mexico?

Answer 7

Santa Anna

Question 8

Who was elected commander-in-chief of the Texan army and would become that nation’s first president?

Answer 8

Sam Houston

Question 9

Who are the three men who shared leadership responsibilities of the command at the alamo?

Answer 9

Jim Bowie
Davy Crockett
William Travis

Question 10

What was the proposal in Congress that called for no slavery in any of the new lands acquired from Mexico?

Answer 10

Wilmot Proviso

Question 11

Who was the American general who moved US troops to the Rio Grande knowing it would cause a war?

Answer 11

Zachary Taylor

Question 12

What was the name given to the purchase of 45,000 square miles of Mexican land near the Gila River?

Answer 12

Gadsen Purchase

Question 13

What was the name of the American general who captured Mexico City?

Answer 13

Winfield Scott

Question 14

Who was the american who during the Mexican War captured Northern California and established the Bear Flag Republic?

Answer 14

John C. Fremont

Question 15

Who was the congressman who wanted to know the exact spot where American blood was shed starting the Mexican War?

Answer 15

Abraham Lincoln

Question 16

What was the name of the Treaty that ended the Mexican-American war?

Answer 16

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 17

What was the name given to the large area of land in the southwest - that was taken from the Mexicans as a result of the war?

Answer 17

Mexican Cession

Question 18

Who tried to start a massive slave revolt by capturing the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 18

John Brown

Question 19

What was the name given to the type of men who became social outcast by living in the mountains and trapping beaver?

Answer 19

Mountain Men

Question 20

Name the road that was referred to as the “Trail of Commerce?”

Answer 20

Santa Fe Trail

Question 21

What was the Supreme Court ruling that opened up the possibility of slavery in the north?

Answer 21

Dred Scott Decision

Question 22

What political party that was formed out of opposition to the expansion of slavery?

Answer 22

Republican Party

Question 23

Was was the violence in Kansas between anti-slavery factions and pro-slavery factions?

Answer 23

Bleeding Kansas

Question 24

What is the meeting called that is held once a year in-which St. Louis merchants send goods out to the mountains and trade for furs?

Answer 24

Rendezvous system

Question 25

What is the name of the road that was referred to as the “trail of settlement”?

Answer 25

Oregon Trail

Question 26

What famous book about slavery was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Answer 26

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 27

What term means the people in the territory vote on the issue of slavery?

Answer 27

Popular sovereignty

Question 28

What was the agreement that came about as a result of the acquisition of territory from the Mexican War and the question of slavery in that area?

Answer 28

Compromise of 1850

Question 29

What was the act that was introduced by Stephen Douglas that opened the possibility of a transcontinental railroad through the central part of the country?

Answer 29

Kansas-Nebraska Act