1. Chapter 14 Flashcards

2. Fur trappers who lived dangerous lives and lived off the land.

3. Mexicans who lived in Texas at the time of the Texas Revolution.

4. Spanish forts built to protect Spanish missions.

5. The practice of being married to more than one person at a time

6. Those who came to California looking for gold.

7. The belief in the expansion of the U.S. from coast to coast

8. These self- appointed law officers punished accused criminals.

9. The United States did not ____ Texas until 1845.

10. The Mexican government had to ____, or give up, land to the United States.

11. A once a year meeting between fur trappers and traders.

12. Identify this place: Important trading post; capital of the New Mexico Territory.

13. Identify this place: River that the Mexicans claimed the southern border of TX to be

14. Identify this place: Place where gold was discovered in 1848.

15. Identify this place: City in Utah founded by the Mormons.

16. Identify this place: River that the United States claimed the southern border of TX to be.

17. Identify this place: A road that runs along the coast of California.

18. Identify this place: Includes the present day states of NV, UT, CA, AZ, NM

19. Identify this place: A $10 million piece of land in southern Arizona & New Mexico

20. Identify this person: Democrat darkhorse elected President in 1844.

21. Identify this person: American general who crossed the Texas- Mexico border and defeated Santa Anna at the battle of Buena Vista.

22. Identify this person: General who captured Mexico City in Mexican War

23. Identify this person: Led a revolt of Americans against the Mexicans in California.

24. Identify this person: Founded a fur trading town named for himself at the mouth of the Columbia River.

25. Identify this person: Spanish priest who founded a string of missions along the CA coast.

26. Identify this person: Brought the first American settlers to Texas in 1821

27. Identify this person: Dictator of Mexico during the Texas Revolution

28. Identify this person: Commander of the main Texas army during the Texas Revolution; first president of Texas.

29. Identify this person: Missionary who led the first American settlers to Oregon.

30. Identify this person: Led the Mormons to Utah in 1845.

31. Identify this person: Founded the Mormon religion in New York

32. Which countries claimed Oregon in the early 1800s?

33. What was the United States' claim to Oregon Country based on?

34. Why was Andrew Jackson against annexing Texas to the United States?

35. Why did the first Americans go to the Oregon Country?

36. How was Oregon divided between Britain and the United States in 1846?

37. Why did Mexico encourage Americans to settle in Texas?

38. Why did many Americans move to Texas from the South?

39. In order to settle in Texas, Americans had to agree to what conditions?

40. Why is the Alamo important in Texas history?

41. What was the last battle of the Texas Revolution?

42. Why did Northerners oppose the annexation of Texas?

43. How did James Polk win the election of 1844?

44. In the early years during Spanish rule, how were Native Americans in California treated?

45. How did belief in Manifest Destiny lead to conflict with other countries?

46. What did the United States and Britain agree to regarding Oregon Country in 1818?

47. What were the causes of the Mexican War? (name 3)

48. What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

49. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo established the Texas-Mexico border at ___________

50. Why did the United States make the Gadsden Purchase? How much did they pay for it?

51. When English- speaking settlers moved into the Southwest, what did they adopt from the people living there?

52. What convinced Congress to annex Texas?

53. What convinced the Mormons that they should move to an unsettled area where they could have religious freedom?

54. Why did the Mormons choose the Great Salt Lake valley as their new home?

55. “Let us organize a band of 200 or 300 who are interested in the welfare of the community. If two or three of these robbers were caught and treated to lynch law, their fellows would be careful about future robberies." Who might have made this statement?

56. “Many of them came to California during the gold rush and a few of them became rich. Later on, they were denied the right to testify in a court of law." Who does this statement describe?

57. What were the natural boundaries of the United States in 1850?

58. Locate this on a map: Gadsden Purchase, 1853

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60. Locate this on a map: From Great Britain, 1818

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62. Locate this on a map: Louisiana Purchase, 1803

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64. Locate this on a map: Texas Annexation, 1845

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66. Locate this on a map: East and West Florida, 1819/1821

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68. Locate this on a map: Mexican Cession, 1848

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70. Locate this on a map: Oregon Country, 1846

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72. Locate this on a map: The United States after the Treaty of Paris, 1783

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