Vocab Module 12 Lesson 1,2,3

Question 1

Priest who led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810

Answer 1

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Question 2

Agents of the Mexican republic hired to bring settlers to Texas

Answer 2

Empresarios

Question 3

Empresario who established the first American colony in Texas

Answer 3

Stephen F. Austin

Question 4

Mexican leader who came to power in 1830 and suspended Mexico’s constitution

Answer 4

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 5

An old mission in San Antonio occupied by Texan revolutionary forces in 1836

Answer 5

Alamo

Question 6

Decisive victory that gave Texas independence from Mexico

Answer 6

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 7

Belief that America’s fate was to conquer land all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Answer 7

Manifest Destiny

Question 8

U.S. president, elected in 1844, whose administration annexed both Texas and Oregon

Answer 8

James K. Polk

Question 9

Cowboys

Answer 9

Vaqueros

Question 10

Spanish colonists and their descendants living in California

Answer 10

Californios

Question 11

Rebellion of American settlers against the Californios in 1846

Answer 11

Bear Flag Revolt

Question 12

1848 peace treaty between Mexico and the United States

Answer 12

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 13

Purchase from Mexico of the southern parts of present-day New Mexico and Arizona in 1853

Answer 13

Gadsden Purchase

Question 14

Swiss immigrant who started the first Anglo-Californian colony in 1839

Answer 14

John Sutter

Question 15

A group of western travelers who were trapped in crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47

Answer 15

Donner Party

Question 16

Gold-seeking migrants who traveled to California in 1849

Answer 16

forty-niners

Question 17

Miners who used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets from loose rock or gravel

Answer 17

Placer Miners

Question 18

Search for gold

Answer 18

Prospect