Vocabulary
Raising one or two cash crops that would sell at home or abroad.
What is specialization?
United States' destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory and was obvious.
What is manifest destiny?
The impact of the market revolution on potential customers.
What is falling prices meant many workers became regular consumers?
A prophet had a vision of future events involving Black Hawk.
What motivated Black Hawk to rebel against the United States?
To prevent border violations and protect the territory from Native American attacks.
What did Mexico hope to gain from Anglo settlement in Texas?
People bought and sold goods rather than making them for their own use.
What is market revolution?
An agreement in which American settlers bought cheap land in return for a pledge to obey Mexican laws and observe the official religion of Roman Catholicism.
What is a land grant?
Improved transportation and communication made America’s regions interdependent.
How did the transportation revolution bind U.S. regions to one another and to the rest of the world?
A trail that started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Portland, Oregon.
What was the Oregon Trail?
Rebellions erupted that were incited by Santa Anna revoking local powers in Texas.
What was the Texas Revolution?
The economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production and use them to earn profits.
What is capitalism?
Incorporate.
What is annex?
Southerners sought to extend slavery while Northerners feared it would tip the uneasy balance in the Senate in favor of slave states.
What were the differences between Northern and Southern positions on the annexation of Texas?
An agreement between the United States and Mexico in which Mexico ceded New Mexico and California to the US and the US agreed to pay 15 million for the cession.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill.
What caused the California gold rush?
What is entrepreneur?
Prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the gold rush.
Who are forty-niners?
Position forces at the Rio Grande.
How did President Polk provoke Mexico to attack U.S. forces?
He established a colony between the Brazos and Colorado rivers where no drunkard, gambler, profane swearer, and idler would be allowed.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Signed which granted independence to Texas.
What was the Treaty of Velasco?
Tapped in code to carry messages across copper wire.
What is a telegraph?
The discovery of gold that brought an onrush of miners.
What is gold rush?
A Spanish-speaking missionary sent to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico and to gain approval of the Rio Grande as the Texas border.
Who is John Slidell?
Native American nations provided control of the Central Plains, in turn Native Americans promised not to attack settlers and to allow the construction of government forts and roads.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
He invented the first steel plow.
Who is John Deere?