Manifest Destiny & the Growing Nation 1
This directly led to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The state that was NOT ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, out of the following: California, Nevada, Oregon or Arizona
What is Oregon?
The event most responsible for the rapid rise in California’s population in the 1840s
What is the Gold Rush?
California's main industry in the 1830s
What is cattle ranching?
Industry adopted in the United States from the Spanish
What is sheep raising?
This state's annexation contributed to the start of the Mexican-American War
What is Texas?
The definition of Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
A contribution of Chinese immigrants to the United States
What is cultural diversity?
The name of the law where couples share property acquired during their marriage.
What is community property law?
Mexican building material used in the Southwest
What is adobe
A major effect of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States
What is doubled the country's size?
Fill in the blank: Mexican people living in the territory given up in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo became ______________.
What is U.S. Citizens?
A major effect of the California gold rush (not including immigration)
What is California gaining statehood?
The subject of Mexican pueblo law, which was used as a basis of U.S. law
What is water rights?
The reason why Mormons moved west to Utah
What is finding a place to settle to freely practice their beliefs?
The effect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Mexico's territory size
What is decreasing by half?
The president that baited Mexico into a war and then took California and New Mexico by force
Who is James K. Polk?
A major achievement of pioneer women, compared to women in the eastern U.S.
What is voting in elections?
One legacy of the Californios
What are city names?
The professional sport with Mexicano roots
What is rodeo?
The three ways the United States acquired land
What is war, treaties and colonization?
What military event did it take Santa Anna’s army nearly two weeks to defeat a much smaller American force
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
One of the legacies of the Lewis and Clark expedition, pertaining to routes
What is mapping a route to the Pacific?
Mexicanos were denied this by people who colonized the land ceded to the United States by Mexico
What is denied their rights?
The exchange of corn, tomatoes, chocolate and avocados for lamb, barley, walnuts and grapes
What is the exchange of foods between Mexico and Spain?