Movement West
Texas
The Gold Rush
Solution: Populism
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100
The colonial belief that Americans had a divinely given responsibility to settle the west.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
The infamous battle in Texas in which Texans fought for independence from Mexico.
What is the Alamo?
100
The name for the people who went to California in search of gold.
Who were the 49'ers?
100
Drought, crop and animal diseases and expensive railroad shipping costs caused problems for this group of people in the mid 1800s.
Who were farmers?
100
The name of the famous silver discovery in Nevada during this era.
What is the Comstock Lode?
200
Manifest Destiny promoted a belief that western settlers must convert indigenous people to this religion.
What is Christianity?
200
Mexico’s president and respected military leader who sent Mexican troops to end the American settler revolt in Texas. He was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto and signed a treaty agreeing to withdraw Mexican troops from Texas permanently.
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
200
Most prospectors had this outcome from their efforts.
What is failure to find enough gold to make them rich or even provide livelihood?
200
This painting was produced by this political party to show the importance of farm workers in America.
What was the Populist Party?
200
The city where most of the 49'ers arrived and got their supplies.
What is San Francisco?
300
Manifest Destiny is based in a belief that these people's culture was superior.
What are white people or European Americans?
300
The Treaty with Mexico that required Mexico to give up an area of land stretching from Texas to the Pacific Ocean, recognized Texas as part of the United States and established the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This 1848 newspaper article in California inferred this idea.
What is California was rich in natural resources like gold?
300
The original goal of the Populist Party when it was founded in 1892.
What is help farmers get out of debt and give the "common man" a greater voice in American government?
300
The name for Texas, when it was an independent country from 1836-1846.
What was "The Lone Star Republic?"
400
Manifest Destiny was based in the belief that Americans had an absolute right to move west and take the land of these people.
What are indigenous people or Native Americans?
400
This man...
- Granted the right to start a colony in Mexico.
- Brought 300 families to Mexican Texas in 1825.
- Helped ensure the introduction of slavery into Texas despite the Mexican government’s attempts to ban the institution.
- Lost in the 1836 Texas presidential election
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
400
California became a state in 1850, causing this problem.
What is it entered the Union as a free state, upsetting the slave state/free state balance in Congress.
400
Name an idea from the Populist Party's Platform.
What were...
1. Direct elections of US Senators
2. Eight hour work day for all Americans
3. A graduated federal income tax
400
This 1862 Act gave acres of land to settlers for free.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
The meaning behind all figures in painting moving to the left.
What is the leftward movement depicted westward expansion and west is typically the "left" side on a map.
500
An aspect of living in a Mexican colony that upset American settlers.
What are...
1. Dominance and influence if the Mexican Roman Catholic Church.
2. The Spanish language.
3. A Mexican law outlawing slavery in 1829.
500
Chinese and Latin American immigrants who joined the Gold Rush faced these challenges.
What is racial and ethnic discrimination?
500
A Populist Party candidate who ran for President.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
500
This Populist Party idea called on the US government to use both silver and gold coins in hopes that more coins in circulation would cause inflation leading to higher prices that would benefit farmers.
What is bi-metallism?