Mexican American War
Oregon Country
Texas
Native American Experience
California
100
Name three titles given to those who lived in California. Heritage doesn't matter.
What were Californios, Rancheros, and Vaqueros?
100
The event in which England and the United States agreed to both occupy Oregon is called...
What is joint occupation?
100
Moses Austin dies, he takes over Moses' misson.
Who is his son, Stephen Austin?
100
This Native American tribe adapted to the American way of life.
Who are the Cherokee?
100
Spain colonized in California through
What is missions.
200
It officially ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the United States? (in February 1848)
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
The mountain men were...
Who were tough men who made a living by trapping beavers and other critters?
200
Stephen Austin was sent to jail because
What is Stephen Austin sending a letter to Mexico about gaining independence which then gets intercepted.
200
The definition of Cultural Accommodation is
What was the realization that the American settlers would not leave Indian territory and try to make a compromise and adapt to the American ways of life?
200
These are two jobs of Native Americans who lived in Missions
What is working in the wheat fields/orchards/vineyards, tending sheep and cattle, tanning hides, making tile/adobe bricks, weaving cloth, beautifying the church, and working in the kitchen?
300
A city where a small group of Americans seize while capturing the Mexican General and Vallejo in order to declare California as a free and independent state.
What is Sonoma?
300
During James K. Polk's campaign, he used this idea as part of his campaign in 1844.
What is annexing Oregon Country?
300
An event, ______________, happens on December 29, 1845
What is Texas officially becoming a state
300
The amount of Cherokee Indians who died on “The Trail of Tears”.
What is roughly 4000?
300
This compromise made California the 31st state in the Union.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
400
Name three effects of Mexico’s lost to America. What were the effects of Mexico losing to America?
What is Mexico’s humiliation, the white culture being seen superior to Mexican and Spanish cultures, Californios would try to became US citizen but were often denied or ignored, and lost of land and dignity.
400
Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife, along with Henry and Eliza Spalding, came to Oregon as missionaries who were willing to spread Christianity to the area, build churches, schools, and mills. Not only that, but they also showed these two tribes how irrigate their land.
Who are the Cayuse and Nez Perce?
400
The rapid influx of migration in Texas made it difficult to fulfill the original deal because
What is Protestants not wanting to follow the Catholic Church, Mexican Government was ineffective, outright refusal to obey Mexican laws, abolishment of slavery in name only, and the 1 man rule vs. Democracy?
400
These were the only two tribes that remained in the Southeast by 1833?
What is the Cherokee and the Seminoles.
400
People living in the west had a strong sense of
What is individualism and self-reliance?
500
He captures Monterey, the current capital of California at that time, and San Francisco.
Who is Commodore John Drake Sloat?
500
The Cayuse attacked the Whitman Mission in November of 1847 for this reason.
What is missionaries settling near the Cayuse unaware of the fact that they were carrying the measles with them. The disease spread to the Cayuse, killing many of their people. The disease became an epidemic and the Cayuse accused the mission of poisoning their water supply and their children, as well as killing 12 of their people.
500
Stephen Austin negotiates the Treaty with Mexico because
What is Mexico’s rebellion with Spain and Mexico winning its independence which causes Stephen Austin to negotiate the treaty in order to bring the old three hundred to Texas.
500
This case was when Chief John Ross argued the legality of forcefully removing the Cherokee from their land.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
500
Regionalism is
What is a sense of belonging to a specific area or region.
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