History Chapter 11, Section 1
Who was the head of the Mormon Church after the Murder of Joseph Smith?
Bingham Young
As a result of the population explosion of the "Gold Fever" years:
California became eligible for statehood.
A lesson that a Western traveler might learn from the Donner Party is:
Don't look for shortcuts
Who were agents who brought settlers to Texas?
Empresarios
Who was a Mexican priest who led Native Americans & mertizos in a rebellion in 1810?
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Americans moved Westward in the early 1800's because:
French & British companies had depleted the supply of beaver fur in the East.
Who was a Mexican general who was captured at the battle of San Jacinto?
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Who was the U.S. president that favored the annexation of Texas 1844?
John Tyler
What was the idea that the U.S. was bound to the Pacific Ocean & spread democracy?
Manifest Destiny
After the Mexican-American War, the challenge faced by most Mexican Americans when American settlers poured into the Southwest was that:
Mexican land laws greatly differed from U.S. land laws, which led to much confusion.
What was the name of a mission besieged during an important battle of the Texas Revolution?
The Alma
Who was an empresorio who started a colony on the lower Colorado River in 1822?
Stephen F. Austin
Mexican officials didn't want many Americans to settle in California, but they gave:
Swiss immigrant John Sutler to start a colony near they Sacramento River in 1839.
What was the name of a dispute between Mexican & American settlers:
The Bear Flag Revolt
What were the same length and took the same amount of time to travel?
The California & Oregon Trails
What changed the future of the West?
The California Gold Rush
What gave the U.S. much of Mexico's northern Territory?
The Mexican Cession
What increased the size of the U.S. by almost 25%?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What greatly helped play a role in California's development by giving California's economy the means to grow by connecting the state to the rest of the country?
The trans-continental railroad
At the beginning of the Mexican-American War, the U.S. Army was:
better equipped than the Mexican Army.
After the Mexican Cession, various cultures helped to shape one another in the Southwest by:
having communities regularly celebrate both Mexican & American holidays.
What Mormon practice caused the group to be persecuted in the 1850s?
marriage to more than one wife (polygamy)
One way in which Americans made life difficult for Chinese immigrants was by:
placing a high monthly tax on all foreign miners to prospect for gold in California.
The U.S. government helped traders traveling on the Santa Fe Trail by:
sending troops to protect against Native American attacks.
The American expansionists' slogan "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" referred to:
the line which they wanted their northern territory to extend.
A place miner was employed to use pans or other devices to:
wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.