Chapter 7 - Manifest Destiny

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1 Chapter 7 - Manifest Destiny 1) By the time the Civil War began, more Americans lived west of the Appalachians than lived in states along the Atlantic coast 2) Many emigrants headed for California and Oregon because they assumed that the Great Plains contained poor land for farming 3) Many overlanders found their way by using guidebooks written by earlier emigrants 4) Frequent attacks by Native American warriors posed the main danger to the wagon trains 5) Stephen Austin was an empresario 6) The Mexican government assumed that the American settlers in Texas would eventually come to see Mexico as their own country 7) When Haden Edwards declared the American settlements in Texas to be an independent nation, he recruited Stephen Austin to lead an American militia against the Mexican army 8) At their second convention, the Texas settlers recommended separating Texas from Coahuila and joining the United States as a new state

2 9) The Texans won their first victory against the Mexican army at the Alamo 10) James K Polk agreed to split the Oregon territory with Great Britain 11) Mountain men played a vital role in western settlement because they a) protected the wagon trains from Native American attacks b) taught emigrants how to steer the covered wagons over rocky ground c) supplied the wagon trains with food and clothing d) carved out several east-to-west trails that helped settlers move west 12) After winning independence from Mexico, most Texans voted a) for annexation to the United States b) to make Texas a non-slave state c) to remain an independent republic d) to seek international recognition 13) The Bear Flag Republic came to an end when naval forces of the United States took possession of a) Santa Fe b) Mexico City c) California d) Oregon

3 14) According to the time line, years passed between the Whitmans establishing a mission and the start of wagon trains making the trek to Oregon a) five b) seven c) ten d) twelve 15) The hope of finding land on which to settle drove some Americans, called, across the continent a) squatters b) trailblazers c) overlanders d) natives 16) The Mexican government imprisoned Stephen Austin for a) treason b) leading a rebellion c) murder d) violating a treaty 17) In the 1844 presidential race, former president Martin Van Buren lost his party's nomination because he did not a) want to annex Texas as a free state b) want to annex Texas as a slave state c) support annexation of California d) publicly take a stand on annexation

4 18) President Polk replaced Zachary Taylor with Winfield Scott as commander of the forces in Mexico because he a) disapproved of Taylor s battle tactics b) saw Taylor as a potential rival in the 1848 election c) was angry that Taylor had disobeyed his orders d) wanted Taylor to serve as governor of Texas 19) Which did Mexico accept as the southern border of Texas in the treaty that ended the war between Mexico and the United States? a) the Nueces River b) the Rio Grande c) the Oregon Trail d) the California Trail

5 20) Review the diagram above Of the four major battles of the war with Mexico, which was the final decisive battle in the struggle for Texas independence? a) Goliad b) Gonzales c) Alamo d) San Jacinto 21) According to the passage, which of the following was one of the greatest perils that overlanders faced on the Oregon Trail? a) Native American attacks b) fights between settlers c) rough terrain d) wild animals

6 22) In 1834 the Mexican government secularized its missions, meaning that it a) gave churches permanent control over them b) sent Mexican soldiers to occupy them c) divided them up among Native Americans d) transferred them from religious control to civil control 23) After Mexican independence, American influence in the borderlands a) increased b) was limited to California c) gradually faded d) disappeared 24) Which best describes Texas at the time of Mexican independence? a) a territory that was disputed between Mexico and Great Britain b) a sparsely populated buffer zone between the United States and Mexico c) a territory struggling to break free of Mexico and gain independence d) an independent nation known as the Bear Flag Republic 25) In 1845 President Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico City as a special envoy, or a) representative b) vice president c) soldier d) friend 26) a Sam Houston 27) e Goliad 28) d Presidios 29) c San Jacinto 30) b Gonzales a) first president of the Republic of Texas b) site of the Texans first victory over the Mexican army c) site of attack that ended the Texas War for Independence d) frontier forts established by the Spanish e) site of the execution of more than 300 Texans 31) d Brigham Young 32) a Jim Bridger 33) c John Deere 34) b Cyrus McCormick a) mountain man and trailblazer b) patented the mechanical reaper in 1834 c) engineered a plow with slick, sharp-edged steel blades that cut cleanly through the sod d) led the Mormons west to escape further persecution

7 Match the letter of each trail on the map to the correct name of the trail 35) c California Trail 36) d Oregon Trail 37) b Mormon Trail 38) a Santa Fe Trail a) D b) A c) C d) B 39) b Cede 40) a Mestizos a) persons of mixed European and Native American ancestry b) give up