The Gold Rush
Land Acquisitions
The History of Texas
Tales of the Trails
Homestead Act/
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
100
Gold was first discovered here
John Sutter's sawmill in Coloma, California
(either option will be accepted)
100
This person facilitated the Louisiana Purchase between the United States and France
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
San Antonio de Bexar was the location of this Spanish mission where a major battle of the Texas Revolution happened
What is the Alamo?
100
The longest and most difficult trail used to reach the West
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
Descendants of the first Spanish, Mexican and indigenous families on the Texas frontier
Who were tejanos?
200
The name of the carpenter who found the first gold in California
Who is James Marshall?
200
Florida was acquired from this country
Who is Spain?
200
The first American empresario who brought many American families to Texas
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
The person who led members of the Mormon religion from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah
Who is Brigham Young?
200
Doing this would exempt you from applying for land from the Homestead Act
What is committing acts against the United States?
300
Name a profitable job that could be had during the height of the gold rush and explain why they made so much money.
What is a shopkeeper because they could choose whatever prices the market could handle or saloon owners because if they were near a gold mine they would always have customers who wanted to drink?
300
The name of the territory in the northwest corner of the United States
What is Oregon Country?
300
The name of the battle where Santa Anna surrendered & agreed to remove Mexican troops from Texas and allow them to be independent
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
300
Describe the job of a ferryman.
What is to help people cross rivers along the Oregon Trail?
300
Explain what an exoduster was.
What is an African American from the South who had been formerly enslaved and who moved west for a better life?
400
What were John Sutter's feelings towards the Gold Rush? Include at least one reason
What is disappointment/disgust?
Reasons included: inability to finish his sawmill/continue his business
the fact that his land was overrun by 49ers
his workers abandoned him to look for gold
400
After Texas decided to give up its independence to become a state in the United States, the land acquisition became known as this.
What is the Texas Annexation?
400
This leader of the Texas Army at the Alamo wrote a letter begging for reinforcements, who never came, and resulted in his death at the hands of Santa Anna and his army
Who is William Travis?
400
This trail was used primarily for trade, so many traders went back & forth on it regularly
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
400
The requirements to be granted a homestead of 160 acres from the United States government
Be 21 years of age (if under 21, you had to prove you had served in the military)
Be a citizen or have filed your intent to become one through the naturalization process
Be head of household (male or female/gender didn't matter)
500
This person founded a trail to provide a more direct route to the gold mines that also had more water
Who is John Bozeman?
500
This small area of land was bought to help the United States have a flat area to finish the transcontinental railroad
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
500
_______________ was the newly elected President of Texas' new found political body called ______________.
Who is Sam Houston and what is the Consultation?
500
The length of time it took most travelers to travel from Independence, Missouri to Willamette Valley in Oregon
What is 5 months?
500
Name at least two effects of the declining buffalo population had on the Native Americans
*loss of food
*loss of furs for warmth
*settlers took or used land that was previously lived on or hunted on by Native Americans for themselves (once the buffalo were gone)
600
Provide one example of discrimination that took place during the Gold Rush.
What is laws passed requiring Chinese miners to pay taxes that other groups didn't have to or fighting between different ethnic groups/nationalities?
600
The Mexican American War ended in the United States acquiring territory that includes these modern day states
Primarily California, Nevada, and Arizona
600
The battle that was taking place that caused most Americans to not be able to help at the Alamo; Santa Anna used this knowledge to attack the Alamo when they would not have enough troops to survive
What is the battle of Goliad?
600
The reason Chief Red Cloud attacked & killed 80 people on the Bozeman Trail
The American government was building a fort on land that had been previously given to Native Americans
600
Once you claimed a homestead, you had to do these things to permanently claim the land as their own (get a deed to the land).
What are:
*Live and work on the land
*File an application with the government to prove that you had made improvements to the land?