history quiz 8

Led by John C Fremont, a group of American settlers near Sacramento launched a revolt against Mexico; and in June 1846 they proclaimed California an independent republic. This action was the

"Bear Flag Revolt."

By the 1830s, the Cherokee had (3)

1) a written constitution modeled on that of the U.S. 2) become successful farmers, many with slaves 3) established schools

Critics of the US-Mexico War of 1846-48 included (3)

1) abolitionists 2) Abraham Lincoln 3) Henry David Thoreau

Mexico abolished slavery in

1829

Texas was annexed by the United States in

1845

The U.S.-Mexican War began when

American and Mexican forces clashed over disputed border territory in southern Texas between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers.

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "John Marshall has made his decision [in the Worcester v. Georgia case], now let him enforce it."

Andrew Jackson

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to our brothers and children? Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of his removal and settlement."

Andrew Jackson (1830)

The "Five Civilized Tribes" of the Southeast included all of the following EXCEPT the:

Sioux

Chief John Ross was

assimilated leader of the Cherokee, forced to walk "trail of tears"

Why was James K. Polk interested in aquiring California after his election in 1844?

because of the two natural harbors in San Francisco and San Diego.

In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), Chief Justice John Marshall recognized Indians as

domestic dependent nations

By the middle of the 1830s, the number of American immigrants into Texas

outnumbered the Mexican Tejano population there by ten times.

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "Will you then, by resistance, compel us to resort to arms? God forbid! Or will you, by flight, seek to hid yourselves in mountains and forests, and thus oblige us to hunt you down? Remember that, in pursuit, it may be impossible to avoid conflicts. The blood of the white man or the blood of the red man may be spilt, and, if spilt, however accidentally, it may be impossible for the discreet and humane among you, or among us, to prevent a general war and carnage. Think of this, my Cherokee brethren! I am an old warrior, and have been present at many a scene of slaughter, but spare me, I beseech you, the horror of witnessing the destruction of the Cherokees."

Gen. Winfield Scott (1838)

Leader of the short-lived "Bear Flag Republic" in California in 1846

John C Fremont

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "[It is] our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us."

John L. O'Sullivan (1845)

Professor O'Neil's "Indian" name as a child was

Little Red Feather

Indian guide who served and Lewis and Clark's translator and adviser:

Sacagawea

Which of the following is true about American settlers in Mexico's northern province of Texas in the 1820s-1830s?

They intended to spread the cotton culture and buy slaves for their new cotton plantations.

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove, at any time, to the Mexican republic . . . In said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans shall be inviolably respected."

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Identify the author of the following primary source quote: "The presence of United States troops on the edge of the disputed territory furthest from the Mexican settlements, was not sufficient to provoke hostilities. We were sent to provoke a fight, but it was essential that Mexico should commence it . . . To this day I regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory."

Ulysses S Grant Memoirs (1885)

Had it passed, the Wilmot Proviso would have

prohibited slavery in any territory won from Mexico.

Why did President Polk order General Zachary Taylor across the Nueces to the banks of the Rio Grande in 1846?

to provoke a Mexican attack, allowing him to launch a full war against Mexico

When Sam Houston assumed office as the president of the new republic of Texas in October 1836, he expected

to see Texas quickly annexed by the United States.

When did Mexico concede defeat in the Mexican-American War?

when General Winfield Scott captured Mexico City in September 1847