Westward Expansion

Question 0

Vigilantes

Answer 0

Persons who took the into their own hands

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

The belief that god wanted the white Americans to move west

Question 2

Dawes Act

Answer 2

A law enacted in 1887, that distributed reservation land to individual owners when native Americans refused to give up their customs.

Question 3

Homestead Act

Answer 3

Passed in 1862, this law offered 160 acres of land for anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years

Question 4

Missionaries

Answer 4

A person sent by the church to preach, teach, and convert people’s to Christianity

Question 5

Polygamy

Answer 5

Having more than one wife

Question 6

Annex

Answer 6

To take a land from a country and add it to the union

Question 7

John Sutter

Answer 7

A Swiss emigrant who had come to California in 1839 with the idea of building a vast empire.

Question 8

Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna

Answer 8

A military general and the elected president (Dictator) of Mexico.

Question 9

James K. Polk

Answer 9

The 11th president of the US and strongly believed in Manifest Destiny. He used the Campaign slogan “54-40 or Fight!” And the first president to annex land.

Question 10

Zachary Taylor

Answer 10

He was a general under James K. Polk that commanded 3500 men

Question 11

Sam Houston

Answer 11

The Commander in Chief of the army of Texas and won the battle of San Jacinto, whic won Texas’s independence from Mexico.

Question 12

Moses Austin

Answer 12

Wanted to colonize Texas but died

Question 13

Stephan Austin

Answer 13

He took over Moses Austin’s Dream After He Died.

Question 14

John Gast

Answer 14

Painter Of The Manifest Destiny Painting

Question 15

What Were The First Pioneer Women Who Settled In The West were the first American Women To Do?

Answer 15

They Were The First To Get The Right To Vote.

Question 16

Where Did The Mormons Settle In The Late 1840’s?

Answer 16

Utah

Question 17

Which Territory Did The United States Gain As A Result Of The Mexican War?

Answer 17

Texas

Question 18

In All Of Its Land Acquisitions, Where Did The United States Settle For Less Land Than It Wanted?

Answer 18

Oregon Territory

Question 19

Barbed wire

Answer 19

This was used to keep farm animals inside the farm

Question 20

Gold rush

Answer 20

When James Marshall on Johann Sutter’s Land. The word eventually spreads of this and many people move to the west (Oregon and California) in hope if finding gold.

Question 21

What was the result of the Luisiana Purchase?

Answer 21

Many people wanted to start moving west.

Question 22

Why did Americans move west?

Answer 22

They believed it was their “Manifest Destiny” to do so. Also, the went for religious freedom, for adventure, or to spread family.

Question 23

Why was the annexation of Texas opposed by many northern Amerians?

Answer 23

They thought it would become a slave state.

Question 24

What actions provoked the Mexican war

Answer 24

The Americans did not speak Spanish or try to

They believed they were superior

They had different ideas about governing