Americans Settle in the Southwest
Texas Independence and Annexation
Attitudes Towards War
The War with Mexico
The Gold Rush
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What was the Mission System?
Before Mexico won its independence in 1821 Roman Catholic missions in California, New Mexico, and Texas tried to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and to settle them on mission lands.
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What happened to Austin after he traveled to Mexico City to present petitions for greater self-government for Texas to Mexican President Santa Anna?
He was imprisoned for inciting revolution.
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This U.S. President believed that war with Mexico would bring not only Texas but also New Mexico and California into the Union. He supported Texas's claims in disputes with Mexico over the Texas-Mexico border.
Who is James K. Polk
100
This man was nicknamed the "Long Marcher" when he and his men crossed 800 miles of barren ground to Santa Fe, and eventually took New Mexico without a single shot being fired.
Who is Stephen Kearney
100
Who were the forty-niners? Not the football team lol
Prospectors from Asia, South America, and Europe who flocked to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
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This man was the most successful empresario, issued 297 land grants that became known as Texas's Old Three Hundred, and claimed that "no drunkard, no gambler, no profane swearer, and no idler would be allowed."
Who is Stephen F. Austin
200
Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and the rest of the 187 U.S. defenders were slaughtered by Santa Anna at this abandoned mission and fort.
What is the Alamo
200
President Polk ordered this man to march to the Rio Grande and blockade the river after emissary John Slidell failed to purchase California and New Mexico from Mexico or secure the Rio Grande as the Texas-Mexico border.
Who is Zachary Taylor
200
This man was nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers." He supervised an amphibious landing at Veracruz landing 10,000 troops in 200 ships. He captured Mexico City on September 14, 1847. His arm did not lose a single battle.
Who is Winfield Scott
200
What enabled California to skip the territorial phase, draft a constitution, and apply directly for statehood?
The population explosion that resulted in over 100,000 people by 1849.
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Why did the Mexican government encourage American farmers to settle in Texas?
What is to prevent border violence by horse thieves, and to protect the territory from Native American attacks.
300
The Texans, led by this man defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto shouting "Remember the Alamo!" He later became president of The Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston
300
This man said "Mexico was the forbidden fruit. The penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death."
Who is John C. Calhoun
300
What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the U.S. The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million for the Mexican cession. It also guaranteed Mexicans already living in the territory that Mexico was ceding to the U.S. freedom of religion, protection of property, bilingual elections, and open borders.
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What allowed San Francisco to become a "pandemonium of a city" and supply center?
What is its geographic location on the California coast with a harbor.
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How did the great influx of Anglo settlers to Texas affect the relationship with Mexico?
Most settlers spoke English rather than Spanish. Many settlers were cotton or sugar farmers who brought slaves with them even though Mexico had abolished slavery in 1824. With the sheer number of Anglo settlers coming into Texas, it was impossible to keep the vagrants and vagabonds out of the territory.
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When did Texas formally become the 28th state in the Union?
What is December 29, 1845
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How did Southerners view the annexation of Texas?
They saw it as an opportunity to extend slavery and increase Southern power in Congress. They viewed the Wilmot Proviso as an attack on slavery that solidified Southern support for the war by the debate on war to a debate on slavery.
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Along with the settlement of Oregon and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, this purchase established the current borders of the lower 48 states.
What is the Gadsden Purchase
400
Who discovered gold on Sutter's Mill in the California Sierra Nevadas in January 1848
Who is James Marshall, an American carpenter
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How did relations between the Mexicans and Native Americans in the Southwest change after 1821?
After the missions were gained from the Spanish by the Mexican government, the surrounding lands were offered to government officials and ranchers. Some Natives were forced to remain as unpaid laborers, and some fled. When Mexicans captured Native Americans for forced labor, groups of hostile Comanche and Apache retaliated terrorizing Mexican settlements and stealing livestock that supported many American settlers and Tejanos.
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How did the U.S. opinions differ along the sectional lines about incorporating or annexing Texas into the United States?
Southerners sought to extend slavery which was already established there. Northerners feared that the annexation of more slave territory would tip the balance in the Senate in favor of the slave states, and prompt a war with Mexico
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Why did Northerners mainly oppose the war with Mexico?
Antislavery Whigs and abolitionists saw the war as a plot to expand slavery and ensure Southern domination of the Union.
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Taylor's occupation of the Rio Grande triggered a response by Mexican forces near Matamoros, where 9 U.S. soldiers were killed. President Polk issued this war message to congress which sounded a lot like Bush's message after 9/11.
"By shedding American blood upon American soil, Mexico had started the war."
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