VocabPeopleAcquiring Land Texas and Independence Acts and Cases
Vocab 100 To add on to your country Answer: Annex
Vocab 200 It is our right to expand westward Answer: Manifest Destiny
Vocab 300 President who believed in Manifest Destiny Answer: Polk
Vocab 400 To vote on a law Answer: Popular Sovereignty
Vocab 500 Pro-slavery people who cross the border to violently fight for slavery Answer: Border Ruffians
People 100 Famous for a new type of knife Answer: Bowie
People 200 General who becomes president of Mexico Answer: Santa Anna
People 300 Blazed the California trail Answer: Joe Walker
People 400 Showed that it was possible for a family to move west Answer: The Whitmans
People 500 Former congressman who became an Alamo defender Answer: Crockett
Acquiring Land 100 This lead up to California statehood Answer: The Gold Rush
Acquiring Land 200 Slogan to push for all of the Oregon territory Answer: or Fight
Acquiring Land 300 Start of both trails Answer: Independence, Missouri
Acquiring Land 400 Buying a small strip of land for a railroad in 1853 Answer: Gadsden Purchase
Acquiring Land 500 What is the southern boundary of Texas according to Texas and Mexico? (You need both and label which is which) Answer: Texas – Rio Grande River Mexico – Nueces River
Texas and Independence 100 An old Spanish mission where Texans stood for independence Answer: The Alamo
Texas and Independence 200 What treaty marked the final triumph of manifest destiny? Answer: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Texas and Independence 300 Who signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Answer: Mexico and the U.S.
Texas and Independence 400 What is the Mexican Cession? Answer: Land that was given after the war
Texas and Independence 500 3 reasons why Texas pushed for Independence Answer: Religion, government, slavery
Acts and Cases 100 What was Dred Scott’s owner’s job? Answer: Military Surgeon
Acts and Cases 200 Why was the Compromise of 1850 necessary? Answer: To balance the power in the US (CA wanted to be a state)
Acts and Cases 300 What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act use to create the new states? Answer: Popular Sovereignty
Acts and Cases 400 What act or compromise was unconstitutional according to the Dred Scott case? Answer: Missouri Compromise
Acts and Cases 500 List 3 of the 4 parts of the ruling in the Dred Scott case. Answer: 1.Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional 2.Slaves are not people so they cannot sue 3.Remains a slave 4.Slaves are property and the Constitution protects property