Vocab
What is the term for searching for gold?
What is to Prospect
What are the name of the Cowboys of the SW?
Bonus: Originally cowboys came from where? +100pts
What are Vaqueros
Bonus: Mexico. = +100pts
Who was the U.S. president, elected in 1844, whose administration annexed both Texas and?
What # president was he? Which president came before him? = +100pts
Who was James K . Polk
Bonus: What is # 11 = +100pts
Who was John Tyler = +100pts
What is the name for a Protestant citizen of the Texas Republic?
What is a Texian
Name another way people made a living OTHER THAN MINING in California
Bonus: Which category named would Levi Strauss fall under? = +200pts
What are Farming, Ranching, Lumber milling, Factories, Retail (buying/selling), Entrepreneurships, and Service providers. +100pts after 1st response
Bonus: Entrepreneurship = +200pts
Who are the miners who used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets from loose rock or gravel?
Bonus: What was their method of gold searching called? = +100pts
Who are Placer Miners
Bonus: Panning = +100pts
Who were the gold-seeking migrants who traveled to California in 1849?
Bonus: What is named after them today? = +100pts
What are Forty-Niners
Bonus: Who are the San Francisco 49's/ UNC Charlotte 49's/ Long Beach State 49's = +100pts a piece
Who was the empresario who established the first American colony in Texas?
Bonus: What did he become to the Republic of Texas? = +200pts
Who was Stephen F. Austin
Bonus: The Vice President = +200pts
True or False:
Most miners becoming rich after working in the mines was an effect of the gold rush in California.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False. +600pts
Bonus: The population increasing greatly over a few years was an effect of the gold rush in California. = +100pts
List the 4 present-day states (& their abbreviations) that were part of the Mexican Cession.
Bonus: How many states were gained after war with Mexico? = +200pts Name ALL states gained from war with Mexico = +200pts
What are: Nevada(NV), Arizona(AZ), Utah(UT), & New Mexico(NM)
Bonus: What are 7 = +200pts
Nevada(NV), Arizona(AZ), Utah(UT), New Mexico(NM), California(CA), Oregon(OR) & Texas(TX) = +200pts
What was the name of the group of western travelers who were trapped crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846–47?
Bonus: What was an interesting allegation about this trip? = +100pts
What is the Donner Party
Bonus: Members allegedly resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter = +100pts
What is the name given to the purchase from Mexico of the southern parts of present-day NM and AZ in 1853?
What is the Gadsden Purchase
Who was the priest who led the first major Mexican revolt against Spanish rule in 1810?
Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costillas
True or False:
The Mexican gov’t refuse to speak to John Slidell about the proposed purchase by the US because Mexico was angry over the annexation of Texas.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is True. +800pts
Name the two people who were President/Vice president of the Republic of Texas and what is named after them to this day?
Bonus: What did their president do before he served as president of TX? = +200pts
Who are Sam Houston & Stephen F. Austin; Houston & Austin Texas the capital and another major city in Texas
Bonus: Sam Houston led the Texan army = +200pts
What is the name for the old mission in San Antonio occupied by Texan revolutionary forces in 1836?
Bonus: What is the name for the other battle we lost +200pts
What is the Alamo
Bonus: What is the Goliad +200pts
What was the name of the 1848 peace treaty between Mexico and the United States?
Bonus: What is the name of the 4 states we would eventually receive as a result? = +200
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Bonus: The Mexican Cession = +200pts
Who was the Mexican leader who came to power in 1830 and suspended Mexico’s constitution?
Which battle did he face defeat from the Texans? = +200pts
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Bonus: The Battle of San Jacinto River = +200pts
True or False:
The outmatched Texan Army able to defeat Santa Anna’s army because it surprised the Mexican army station near the Goliad.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False. +1000pts
Bonus: The outmatched Texan Army able to defeat Santa Anna’s army because it surprised the Mexican army resting by the San Jacinto River. = +100pts
Name the presidents up to #11 in order.
Bonus: President # 11 had a strong belief in ________________, which is why we annexed so much territory in the 1840's = +100pts
G. Washington, J. Adams, T. Jefferson, J. Madison, J. Monroe, J. Q. Adams, A. Jackson, M. Van Buren, W. H. Harrison, J. Tyler, & J. K. Polk
Bonus: President # 11 had a strong belief in manifest destiny, which is why we annexed so much territory in the 1840's = +100pts