Moving West
One factor discouraging further settlement by Spanish and Mexican colonists, late 1500s to mid 1700s.
What was the threat of war with nomadic Comanche and Apache Indians in Northern Mexico?
Agreed to become Mexican citizens, to worship as Roman Catholics, and to accept the Mexican constitution, which banned slavery.
What were the requirements of Americans who wanted to settle in Texas?
A religious revival movement in the first half of the 1800s
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Sabotage, such as breaking tools or outwitting overseers, and the more direct method of escape from the plantation.
What were ways enslaved African Americans resisted?
When inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family
What is matrilineal?
The Spanish had founded Texas as a buffer zone to protect the valuable towns and mines of Mexico to the south.
Why did the Spanish found Texas?
The fortified former mission in San Antonio that was the site of the 1836 defeat and slaughter of Texans by Mexican troops
What is the Alamo?
Catholics, Jews, and Mormons
What religious groups faced discrimination and violence during the Second Great Awakening?
Encourage the migration of free African Americans to Africa.
What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?
The similarities between thepowerlessness of slaves and the powerlessness of women
What sparked the Women's Rights Movement of the early to mid 1800s?
A Spanish Franciscan priest who helped establish 9 missions in the present-day state of California.
Who was Father Junipero Serra?
The Nueces and the Rio Grande
What are the two rivers that were contested as the border between the US and Mexico before the Mexican-American War?
An isolated settlement established to achieve the goal of moral perfection
What are utopian communities?
THE LIBERATOR
What was the antislavery newspaper published by William LLoyd Garrison?
Held in New York in 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
the 19th century doctrine that westward expansion of the United States was not only inevitable but a God-given right
What is Manifest Destiny?
A lawyer and politician who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, and wanted to be the man remembered for achieving Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
A movement aimed at providing greater educational opportunities through the establishment of tax-supported public schools
What was the public school movement?
Born a slave in Maryland and escaped to the North in 1838; wrote a best selling autobiography about his life and experiences.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
the 1851 treaty that restricted American Indians to specific areas away from the major trails
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Polk did not want to risk a costly war with Britain when he was eager to go to war with Mexico.
Why did Polk compromise with the British on splitting the Oregon Territory?
A movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
What was the temperance movement?
A rule lasting from 1836 to 1844 that banned debate about slavery in Congress
What was the Gag Rule?
A 1848 New York State law that guaranteed greater property rights for women; used as a model in other states
What was The Married Women's Property Act?