Week 18 New

Question 1

Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:

Answer 1

Battle of the Alamo

Question 2

Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:

Answer 2

Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis

Question 3

War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:

Answer 3

the Mexican War

Question 4

General of the Mexican army:

Answer 4

Santa Anna

Question 5

American general who defeated Santa Anna:

Answer 5

Zachary Taylor

Question 6

American general who captured Mexico City:

Answer 6

Winfield Scott

Question 7

American pioneer who conquered California:

Answer 7

John C. Fremont

Question 8

Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:

Answer 8

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 9

Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:

Answer 9

the Gadsden Purchase

Question 10

Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:

Answer 10

Daniel Webster

Question 11

Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:

Answer 11

the Gold Rush

Question 12

Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:

Answer 12

the Compromise of 1850

Question 13

System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:

Answer 13

the Underground Railroad

Question 14

Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:

Answer 14

Harriet Tubman

Question 15

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:

Answer 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 16

Date of The Mexican War:

Answer 16

1846-1848

Question 17

Date of the Gold Rush:

Answer 17

1849

Question 18

“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”

Answer 18

Davy Crockett

Question 19

“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”

Answer 19

John Quincy Adams