US HIS ch 11

As a result of the Adams-Onís Treaty, the United States gained which territory from Spain?

Florida

During the war between the United States and Mexico, revolts against U.S. control broke out in ________.

New Mexico and California

Why did the Missouri Crisis trigger threats of disunion and war? Identify the positions of both southern slaveholders and northern opponents of the spread of slavery.

Northern politicians disliked the terms of the Missouri Compromise because it allowed the expansion of slavery into the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. They feared this would lead to the West being dominated by slaveholders. Southerners disliked the compromise because it prohibited people from taking their slaves into the territory north of 36° 30' latitude, which they believed was a violation of their property rights.

Texans defeated the army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the battle of ________.

San Jacinto

Why did whites in California dislike the Chinese so much?

The Chinese were seemingly more disciplined than the majority of the white miners, gaining a reputation for being extremely hard-working and frugal. White miners resented the mining successes that the Chinese earned. They believed the Chinese were unfairly depriving them of the means to earn a living.

Corps of Discovery

the group led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the expedition to explore and map the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase

Mexican Cession

the lands west of the Rio Grande ceded to the United States by Mexico in 1848, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado

forty-niners

the nickname for those who traveled to California in 1849 in hopes of finding gold

Texas won its independence from Mexico in ________.

1836

How did Texas settlers' view of Mexico and its people contribute to the history of Texas in the 1830s?

American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government's reluctant tolerance of slavery and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. Most also disliked Mexicans' Roman Catholicism and regarded them as dishonest, ignorant, and backward. Belief in their own superiority inspired some Texans to try to undermine the power of the Mexican government.

According to treaties signed in 1818 and 1827, with which country did the United States jointly occupy Oregon?

Great Britain

A proposal to prohibit the importation of slaves to Missouri following its admission to the United States was made by ________.

James Tallmadge

For what purposes did Thomas Jefferson send Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory? What did he want them to accomplish?

Jefferson wanted Lewis and Clark to find an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean, strengthen U.S. claims to the Pacific Northwest by reaching it through an overland route, explore and map the territory, make note of its natural resources and wildlife, and make contact with Indian tribes with the intention of establishing trade with them.

To balance votes in the Senate, ________ was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state.

Maine

Californios

Mexican residents of California

Tejanos

Mexican residents of Texas

Northwest Passage

the nonexistent all-water route across the North American continent sought by European and American explorers

alcalde

a Mexican official who often served as combined civil administrator, judge, and law enforcement officer

empresario

a person who brought new settlers to Texas in exchange for a grant of land

filibuster

a person who engages in an unofficial military operation intended to seize land from foreign countries or foment revolution there

Missouri Compromise

an agreement reached in Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of 36° 30' latitude

Tallmadge Amendment

an amendment (which did not pass) proposed by representative James Tallmadge in 1819 that called for Missouri to be admitted as a free state and for all slaves there to be gradually emancipated

The Long Expedition established a short-lived republic in Texas known as ________.

the Republic of Texas