On The Road
Why did many German Immigrants head west in the early 1800s?
What is: To start farms?
He mapped the Oregon Trail
Who is: John C Fremont
Why did Genral Santa Anna pass a law to make Texans pay more taxes?
What is:The Mexican government didn't want more Americans moving into Texas.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
What is: It was a law that required American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi river to trade their land for land west of the river.
Who were the forty-niners?
What is: They were people who went to California from all over the world in search of Gold in 1849.
Which of the following is located int he area once known as the Oregon Country?
Willamette Valley
Ohio Valley
Sun City Valley
What is: The Willamette Valley?
He mapped parts of the Louisana Purchase.
Who is: Zebulon Pike
Why do you think a big group of 1,00 pioneers traveled west to Oregon?
What is: Reports from other settlers, and they wanted to settle 640 acres of land and have their own farms.
What was one cause of the Sminole War?
What is: American settlers didn't lioke the Seminole Indians helping enslaved people escape to freedom, so that want the Seminole to leave Florida.
Why did California's population increase to about 100,000 in 1849?
What is: Many people traveled to California in 1849 in search of gold.
How did settler usually protect themselves from the attacks while traveling on trails to the West?
What is: By Circling their wagons?
. He Explored the Louisiana Purchase all the way to the Oregon Country
Who is: Meriwether Lewis?
Why did the Mormons travel west?
What is: The people in the East did not accept the Mormons, they were treated badly.
Who was John Ross?
What is: A Cherokee chief who went before the Supreme Court, arguing against the State of GA for taking Cherokee Land.
Why is John Sutter's sawmill an important place in history ?
What is: Workers were buiilding a saw mill and found gold nuggets in the American River.
Why did many Mexicans settle in present-day Texas?
What is: They were given land by their government?
What modern states were included the Oregon Territory in 1848?
What is: All of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, parts of Wyoming, and Montana
Sometimes to cross over fast moving or deep rivers the pioneers built wooden rafts for their wagons and floated them downstream.
What is: true
Why did the early settlers travel through the Cumberland Gap?
What is: It was easier to travel through a gap in the mountains than to travel over or around the mountains.
Chinese Immigrants were a part of the California Gold Rush.
What is: True
. Which of the following statement about the Mexican-American War are true?
What is: It lasted a little more than one year, It began after Mexico refused to sell land to the United States, It resulted in the United States gaining what are now California, Nevada, and Utah.
10. What was the Mexican Cession?
What is:A large territory of land that Mexico gave to the United States after losing the Mexican-American War.
Who was president during the Western Expansion and California Gold Rush?
Who is: James K Polk?
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
What is: It was the purchase made by Jefferson of the territory from New Orleans to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
"The Spanish of Californios were living their lives peacefully on the West Coast while the colonists were fighting on the East Coast."
Who is: Guadalupe Vallejo's