US History - Out of Many Ch 14

The map of territory added (1845-1853) shows that

The Mexican Cession of 1848 included much of present-day Texas.

As commander-in-chief during the war, James K. Polk defined the role of president by

coordinating both civilian and military goals and needs.

_________ was a free African American pioneer who settled in Washington Territory.

George Bush

The Mexican-American War began over

a border dispute.

The Americans went to war with Mexico because the

United States wanted Mexican territory.

American settlers in this community practiced a frontier of exclusion from the beginnings of settlement:

Austin.

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed that

slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico.

All of the following were reasons why Texans rebelled against the Mexican government EXCEPT

Mexicans began raising the price of land.

From the 1780s to about 1810, the dominant industry in the Oregon Territory was

the fur trade.

The justification for the western removal of the Indians was

the Indians needed a space where they could live undisturbed by whites.

One of the most important factors in the exploration of the West was the

fur trade.

The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States largely because of the

fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state.

While challenged by other historians, popular opinion supports the view of frontier historian, Frederick Jackson Turner, who argued that settling new frontiers

shaped Americans into a uniquely optimistic democratic people.

Louisiana slaveholder General Zachary Taylor, who ran for the Whig Party and won,

privately opposed the expansion of slavery.

Levi Strauss and Jerusha Marshall illustrated that

the real money was in services to the forty-niners.

Fort Ross is indicative of this trade connection:

Russian-Californian.

Austin's Texas colonists most represented what region of the United States?

the South

By 1848, the United States had gained all of the following territories EXCEPT

Alaska.

Generally, pioneers traveling the Overland Trails in the 1840s and 1850s were

traveling in larger groups for safety and for help fording rivers and crossing mountains.

Spain's exclusionary policy toward Santa Fe changed when

Mexico gained its independence from Spain.

The Liberty Party's showing in the 1844 election was the first political sign of the growing strength of

antislavery opinion.

Pioneers were motivated to move west for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

a desire for the ideal home on the part of women.

The Liberty Party's showing in the 1844 election was the first political sign of the growing strength of

antislavery opinion.

Americans justified their restless expansion in all of the following ways EXCEPT this:

Canada and Mexico should belong to the United States.

The outcome of Indian removal in the southern part of Indian Territory in the 1830s-1850s was

successful creation of new communities and self-government.

The Texas army defeated the Mexican army under the leadership of

Sam Houston.

The doctrine of popular sovereignty meant that

free labor in the West could not compete with slave labor.

The Lewis and Clark expedition was financed by

the federal government.

Stephen F. Austin and his hand-picked fellow colonists in Texas agreed to Mexican terms that they

accept the Catholic faith.

In general, free-soilers were

anti-black.

In Mexico, people of mixed blood (Indian and Spanish) were called

Mestizos.

The early Texas settlers were concentrated in the

river bottoms of east Texas.

Which of the following was NOT a major battle in the Mexican-American War?

El Paso

The first outsiders to penetrate the isolation of Spanish California were the

Russians.

The Grand Canyon was first explored by

Major John Wesley Powell.

During the Mexican War, northern Whigs began to characterize the war as a/an

part of a southern conspiracy to expand slavery.

The Texas uprising against Mexico was characterized by

an alliance between Americans and Tejanos.

American fur traders joined in a yearly trade fair in the Rockies characterized by the polyglot collection of many nationalities called the

Rendezvous.

After 1849, California attracted thousands of settlers because of

the discovery of gold.

In the early nineteenth century, these Indian tribes dominated the Great Plains:

Comanches and Arapahoes.

The United States gained the Oregon Territory south of the 49^th parallel

through a treaty with Great Britain.

These warriors were considered by many to be the most skilled horsemen in North America:

Comanches.

James Bowie represented which aspect of the frontier?

inclusion through intermarriage

The Mexican government invited settlement into Texas because it

wanted to create a buffer zone between it and the Comanches.

Most 1840s American immigrants to California made
no effort to conform to Spanish ways or intermarry with Californios.