Socialstudie 12.1 - 12.4

Why did the Spanish grant Moses Austin a large tract of land in Texas?

Since the area was sparsely populated, the Spanish governor of Texas had encouraged the Americans to move into the area by granting men such as Moses Austin huge tracts of land on which to settle several hundred families.

Why could Sam Houston and the Texas militia not help the defenders of the Alamo?

Houston trusted the knowledge of the Texians than the poor defenses of the alamo

What did Texas declare during the Battle of the Alamo? After the Alamo fell, what became the Texian battle cry?

Independent republic; Remember the alamo

With what battle did Texas win independence?

Battle of Jacinto

Who became the first president of the Republic of Texas?

Sam houston

belief named in 1845, JohnQuincy Adams suggested that the continent was destined by Divine Providence to be people by one nation, one language, professing one general System of religious and political principles.

Manifest Destiny

son of Moses Austin, had the grant conferred upon him by the new Mexican government.

Stephen Austin

Mexican Dictator General, was intent on subduing any resistance to Mexican Rule.

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

men at the Alamo, 1st the commanding officer of the regular army, 2nd the commanding officer of the volunteers, and 3rd a nationally famous Tennessee frontiersman, marksman, and former congressman.

William B. Travis, James Bowie, Davy Crockett

texas was known

Lone Star Republic

an expression of a people's will by direct vote

Plebiscite

What German- American established fur companies in the Oregon Country?

John Jacob Astor

What was the significance of South Pass?

Americans moving west

Who was known as the father of the Santa Fe trail?

William becknell

Who was the first American to be appointed to start a mission in the Oregon Country?

Jason Lee

What was the largest wagon train to go west called?

Great Migration

What was a major cause for people living in the Mississippi Valley in the 1830s and 1840s to move to the Northwest?

Fever epidemics

What was the main mode of transportation to the West? Where did the settlers usually begin the journey?

Oregon Trail; Independence, Missouri

an adventurous group of explorers which fur trappers belonged to

Mountain Men

a dedicated trail blazer from New York, played an important role in exploring the West and opening it to settlers

Jedidiah Smith

made a journal called Oregon, which described his travel from west of massachusetts 1832, provided a detailed account of a journey to the oregon country

John B. Wyeth

( modern day South Dakota ) a thick growth of cedar trees, where John B. Wyeth traveled by

Black Hills

worked for a fur trading company in the Rocky Mountains, became a respected leader while living among the Crow Nation

James Beckwourth

one of the main wagon routes into California's Sacramento Valley

Beckwourth Pass

( 1836 ) The American Board of Foreign Missions sent the medical missionary ( Marcus ) and a Reverend ( Henry ) to work among the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest

Marcus Whitman, Henry Spalding

a, long wagon train were thousands of americans followed their dream of a new life

Oregon Trail

a dome of granite, its called like this because most wagon trains reached this point by Independence day

Independence Rock

( Southeast Idaho ) pioneers traveled but whoever route they went there wagons always went here, carbonated water bubbled from the ground

Soda Springs

Why did polk compromise on the boundary between Canada and the United States? What treaty secured this boundary?

President Polk favored expansion and had been elected on a platform called for adding all of Oregon to United States.;Oregon Treaty of 1846

Why did some people believe that president Polk had begun an unjust war?

Polk had manufactured a border crisis and that he had provoked an unjust war

What was the first major amphibious landing of American forces? Who led the landing?

Scott Took Veracruz; Stephen W.Kearny

What revolt did John C. Fremont lead?

The American Flag

What treaty ended the Mexican War? What states would be carved from the Mexican Cession?

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; New Mexico, Arizona, California,Nevada,and Utah as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming

What were gold seekers who went to California called?

Forty-niners

When did California become a state?

1850 by applying enter to the union

What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?

to make a level way for the planned Southern Pacific Railroad

thousands of gold seekers called forty-niners descended on northern California, and the gold rush was underway

1849

Allowed the United States to possess islands where guano was found.

Guano Islands acts