Western expansion

Question 1

Western settlement

Answer 1

Linked to western expansion
Constant element of 19thC

Question 2

Texas
1821: Moses Austin

Answer 2

Made a deal with Mexican government allowing 300 families to move into Mexican territory
Territory eventually became Texas

Question 3

Texas
1823-4

Answer 3

Colony became larger
Brought enslaved people with them
3000 Mexicans compared to 30,000 settlers

Question 4

Texas
Religion

Answer 4

Protestant settlers
Catholic Mexicans
Mexicans had banned slavery in 1820

Question 5

Texans had little governance

Answer 5

Felt this was unfair

Question 6

British ban on slavery in the colonies 1833

Answer 6

Stephen Austin attempted to challenge this in Texas

Question 7

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna declared himself dictator of Mexico (Texas fell under their jurisdiction)

Answer 7

War broke out between the Mexicans and Texans
Texans revolted against Mexican government; 1836 declared a government free from Mexican rule

Question 8

Brief war
The Alamo

Answer 8

1836: Houston’s troops invaded Mexico
Santa Anna agreed to grant Texas independence upon threat of execution

Question 9

Houston became president of the new republic

Answer 9

Wanted to join US
Andrew Jackson worried about Missouri Line for slave states/no northern state to come into union as a free state

Question 10

Andrew Jackson’s final day in office

Answer 10

Recognised Texas as an independent republic
England and France also recognised
Mexico did not

Question 11

Texas invited to join the Union by John Tyler

Answer 11

President at the time
Took 9 years

Question 12

The Overland Trails
1840s
Oregon and California

Answer 12

Useful agricultural places
Incredibly fertile
Warm all year round
Americans wanted to improve their material possession

Question 13

Overland Trails
Logistics

Answer 13

Routes taken to reach west coast
Only a few hundred people took the route between 1841-2
800 people did it a few years on
Cost $600 to make the trip - prevented the poor from doing it

Question 14

Overland Trails
The trip

Answer 14

8-10 carts in a caravan (large caravans not true)
Took 6 months to complete (physically demanding)

Question 15

Mormons settled in

Answer 15

Salt Lake City
Expansion from eastern territories

Question 16

Life wasn’t easy in the settlements

Answer 16

Tried to recreate the societies they had left behind
Days had continued work
Fear of winter or illness

Question 17

350,000

Answer 17

Made the Overland trip altogether

Question 18

Indigenous attack

Answer 18

Very few caravans were attacked
Usually helped by/traded with the natives

Question 19

Trails was a source

Answer 19

Of profit for natives

Question 20

Dramatized on the fear of being attacked

Answer 20

Natives tended to steal stock rather than actually attack the caravans

Question 21

Government built a series of forts along the trail

Answer 21

To protect the wagons
Made arrangements to pay the Indians for the destruction of the land made by wagons
Natives expected to stay on one side of the trail