The Oregon Country
What was a rendezvous? Who had them?
An annual meeting where mountain men would trade goods and catch up with their friends.
Who was the first territorial governor of Florida? Who was the first military governor of Florida?
Territorial Governor: William DuVal
Military Governor: Andrew Jackson
Who was Stephen Austin? Who joined him?
One of the first American settlers in Texas in the 1820s. The Old Three Hundred
What were ranchos?
Similar to plantations, with Native Americans working as slaves.
Who were the 49ers?
The first people who arrived in California in 1849 to search for gold
What is Manifest Destiny? Who is given credit for putting it into words?
America’s “God given right” to take over the continent (ocean to ocean). John L. O’Sullivan.
What was Antebellum Florida?
The time period leading up to the Civil War, where cotton, large plantations, and slavery dominated the region.
What happened in the Battle of the Alamo?
The Mexican Army attacked the Alamo and crushed the resistance (killing all but a few women and children) despite losing several hundred Mexican soldiers.
Texas last stand against Santa Anna.
Mexico won.
Where did the US say the border of Texas was? Where did Mexico say it was?
US: Rio Grande River
Mexico: Nueces River
What is a deseret?
The original name of the Mormon settlement in Utah.
How was Spain removed from the Oregon Territory?
The Adams-Onis Treaty
Why did farmers from Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas move South to Florida? What did they bring with them?
They needed more and new farmland. They brought slavery with them.
What was the battle in Gonzales? What was it fought over? What is it known as?
Fought over a cannon, known as the first real battle for Texas independence, Texas troops pushed back the Mexican army.
What was Polk’s plan to attack Mexico (3 parts)?
1) drive the Mexicans down south of the Rio Grande River
2) The U.S. would take New Mexico and California
3) The U.S. would take Mexico City.
What was the Donner Party?
A famous wagon train heading to California that got stuck in the mountains during the wintertime, forcing many members to resort to cannibalism to survive.
What happened in the Whitman Massacre? Who was involved? Why did it happen?
Dr. Marcus Whitman & his wife Narcissa and 11 others were killed by the Cayuse Indians & Nez Perce Tribe because they blamed the Whitmas for the measles outbreak that killed many Native American children.
Why did Florida have to wait to become a state? What state did they have to wait for? What number state is Florida?
It would enter as a slave state, Congress did not want an imbalance in the number of slave and free states. Florida had to wait for the free state of Iowa to join.
Who attacked whom in the Battle of San Jacinto? What was significant about it?
General Houston attacked Santa Anna, Santa Anna is one of the captured
What did the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo do? What was the Gadsden Purchase?
Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo: officially ended the war
Gadsden Purchase: added a small piece of land to the deal
What is a boomtown? What is a vigilante?
Boomtown: a town that grows quickly overnight, the mining towns that were set up near the gold strikes
Vigilante: a private citizen who tries to enforce the law or punish suspected lawbreakers - someone who takes the law into their own hands
What was the last country to challenge the U.S. on who controlled Oregon?
How did they compromise with the US ? What was the term for it?
Britain
They arranged for a joint occupation, allowing both the British and Americans to live in the Oregon Territory.
What was the nickname for the panhandle of Florida, and why? What were the two main crops in that area?
The “black belt,” because of the number of slaves. Cotton and tobacco.
What were the 3 new laws Mexico made for people to settle in Texas?
They had to learn Spanish, become Mexican citizens, convert to Catholicism, and obey Mexican laws.
What did future US President General Zachary Taylor do? What did it make Young representative Abraham Lincoln propose? What did it cause?
Built a fort in the disputed territory, Lincoln propsed the Spot Resolution, caused Polk to ask Congress to declare war on Mexico.
Who led the Mormons to the Utah Territory? What did he believe in? Who took the church to new territory near the Great Salt Lake when he died?
Joseph Smith - communal ownership of property & polygamy
Brigham Young