U.S. HISTORY REVIEW CHAPTERS 9 AND 10

QUESTION WHAT IS MEANT BY MANIFEST DESTINY?

ANSWER MANIFEST DESTINY IS THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA SHOULD CONTROL THE LAND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN

QUESTION WHO COINED THE PHRASE “MANIFEST DESTINY”?

ANSWER JOHN O”SULLIVAN, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK POST

QUESTION WHAT NORTHERN PROVINCE OF MEXICO FOUGHTT AND WON ITS INDEPENDENCE. IT BECAME THE LONE STAR REPUBLIC?

ANSWER TEXAS

QUESTION WHO IN 1832, SEIZED CONTROL OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT?

ANSWER GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ de SANTA ANNA

QUESTION WHAT WERE THE CONDITIONS STEPHEN AUSTIN PROMISED THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WOULD FOLLOW IN ORDER TO SETTLE IN TEXAS?

ANSWER STEPHEN AUSTIN PROMISED THE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WOULD: LEARN TP SPEAK SPANISH OBSERVE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION OBEY MEXICAN LAWS BECOME MEXICAN CITIZENS

QUESTION WHO WAS ELECTED FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS?

ANSWER THAT WOULD BE SAM HOUSTON

QUESTION WHAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS FOR THE SOUTHERNERS SUPPORT FOR THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS?

ANSWER ANNEXATION OF TEXAS WOULD PROVIDE ANOTHER TERRITORY WHERE SLAVERY WAS ESTABLISHED

QUESTION WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THE SLOGAN “REMEMBER THE ALAMO”?

ANSWER “REMEMBER THE ALAMO” IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT SYMBOLIZES THE MANY TEXANS WHO DIED SEEKING INDEPENDENCE

QUESTION WHAT WERE THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE- HIDALGO?

ANSWER IN THE TERMS OF THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE-HIDALGO, MEXICO ACCEPTED THE RIO GRANDE AS THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY MEXICO GAVE UP CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO THE U.S. PAID MEXICO $15 MILLION

QUESTION WHAT FIGHT IS OFTEN CALLED THE “LEXINGTON OF TEXAS”?

ANSWER THAT WOULD BE THE ONE THAT WAS FOUGHT IN THE TOWN OF GONZALES

QUESTION WHAT TWO WELL KNOWN AMERICAN HEROES LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE ALAMO?

ANSWER JIM BOWIE AND DAVEY CROCKETT

QUESTION AGAINST WHAT COUNTRY DID TEXAS REVOLT?

ANSWER MEXICO

QUESTION DURING THE TEXAS WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, A SMALL TEXAS ARMY WAS DEFEATED AND SLAUGHTERED AT THIS CHURCH MISSION?

QUESTION THE ALAMO

QUESTION WHO WAS THE FRANCISCAN PRIEST THAT SET UP A STRING OF MISSIONS IN CALIFORNIA?

ANSWER HIS NAME: FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA

QUESTION WHO WAS FOUNDER OF THE MORMON RELIGION?

ANSWER JOSEPH SMITH

QUESTION WHAT LEADER LED THE MORMONS TO SALT LAKE CITY TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION?

ANSWER BRIGHAM YOUNG

QUESTION WHY WAS THE WILMOT PROVISO CONTROVERSIAL?

ANSWER IF THE WILMOT PROVISO HAD BECOME LAW, IT WOULD HAVE PROHIBITED SLAVERY IN ANY LANDS TAKEN FROM MEXICO

QUESTION WHAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT WAS A BELIEVER IN MANIFEST DESTINY AND A SUPPORTER OF TEXAS ANNEXATION?

ANSWER THE PRESIDENT WITH A MISSION: JAMES K. POLK

QUESTION HOW DID CALIFORNIA CONTRIBUTE TO THE SLAVERY DEBATE?

ANSWER WHEN CALIFORNIA APPLIED FOR STATEHOOD, THE NUMBER OF SLAVE AND FREE STATES WERE EQUAL. IF CALIFORNIA BECAME FREE STATE, IT TIP THE BALANCE.

QUESTION THE PRESENT DAY BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE U.S. AND MEXICO INCLUDES WHAT PARALLEL?

ANSWER THE BOUNDARY INCLUDES THE 49 TH PARALLEL

QUESTION WHAT WERE THE FORTUNE HUNTERS WHO TRAVELED BY LAND AND SEA TO CALIFORNIA KNOWN AS?

ANSWER THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE FORTY-NINERS

QUESTION WHAT WERE THE FORTY- NINERS SEARCHING FOR?

ANSWER GOLD, OF COURSE

QUESTION WHAT SMALL STRIP OF LAND IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO WAS PURCHASED FROM MEXICO FOR &10 MILLION FOR PURPOSE OF BUILDING A RAILROAD ROUTE?

ANSWER THE GADSDEN PURCHASE, ALTHOUGH MANY AMERICANS FELT THE LARGE SUM OF MONEY FOR THIS TERRITORY WAS “CONSCIENCE” $.

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