Cause and Effects of Western Settlement
long term causes, increasing western settlement
desire for new farm and ranchland
Search for natural resources
Growth of national and foreign markets
People seek to rebuild after the Civil War
This act tried to force assimilation of Native Americans, and it broke up reservations and gave land to each family for farming
What is the Dawes Act?
This region favored tariffs
What is the North?
Reasons Mexico allowed white settlers into Texas
What are:
- a promise to become Catholic
- a promise to help to control Native attacks
- a promise to obey its laws
- a promise to become citizens of Mexico
This road ran through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky
What is the Wilderness Road?
purchase of territory in 1803 for 15 million dollars from France
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Families would travel to Oregon from Independence, Missouri along this route
What is the Oregon Trail?
He was the commander of the United States Army at the Battle of Jacinta against Santa Anna's army-- he soon became president of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
160 acres of land for a small filing fee
What was the Homestead Act of 1862
When Custer & 7th Cavalry attack an Indian village in June 1876, within 20 minutes Lakota Sioux & Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse kill the entire cavalry- this event is known as
What is Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This region had minors, farmers, and trappers
What is the West?
What were three possible routes to take in search of gold in San Francisco?
What are:
sail around Cape Horn
Sail through the Isthmus of Panama
Overland trails- Oregon to California trails
Great Wagon Road ran across this state
What is Pennsylvania?
two expeditions ordered by President Thomas Jefferson to explore to the Pacific Ocean
Who are Lewis and Clark who explored to the Louisiana Territory to the Pacific Ocean and Zebulon Pike to explore the southern portion of the Louisiana Territory.
The reason Spain ceded Florida, called the Florida or Spanish Cession, for a negotiation of 5 million dollars
What is "it was too hard for Spain to police" and Spain was fighting revolutionaries in its Latin American colonies
This man set up a colony is Texas and was known as an empresario
Who is Stephen Austin?
railroad connecting the Port of New Orleans to California
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
This 1868 agreement, the Treaty at Fort Laramie, with the Sioux Nation promised them what region of South Dakota if they did not attack white settlers?
What are the sacred Black Hills?
The region of the United States that opposed tariffs
What is the South?
California became a free state in this year
What is 1850?
In 1848, Congress paid Mexico 15 million dollars for what land?
What is the Mexican Cession comprising what is now the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California?
the first men who settled in Oregon and were trappers, living off the land
Who are the Mountain Men?
a mission in San Antonio under siege
What is the Alamo?
The last man to fall at the Alamo
Who was Davy Crockett?
natural resources found out West
What are gold, silver, oil, agriculture
This discovery in the Black Hills led to the United States sending in troops to protect prospectors
What is gold?
The economy of the North is based on these factors:
What are:
manufacturing
shipping
lumber
fishing
Early industrialization began in the textile mills due to the abundance of water in what region of the United States
What is New England?
Congress declared war with Mexico over a boundary dispute in 1846 after an altercation at what river
What is the Rio Grande?
Who are Russia, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States?
Texas was called this name
What is the Lone Star Republic?
A military officer who died at the Alamo
Who is Col. William Travis?
the last state in the continental United States to enter the union in 1850
What is California?
the 7th Cavalry killed over 150 Native Americans, many unarmed women and children
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
What are plantations (cotton and tobacco) worked by slaves
This man led the new settlers west by following Indian Trails across the Rocky Mountains
Who is Jebediah Smith?
The President who negotiated with Britain to divide Oregon Country into two parts-- the United States was given the southern part and Britain was given the northern region above the 49th parallel.
Who is President James K. Polk?
These people were the first white settlers to build permanent settlements in Oregon
Who are missionaries?
This Mexican dictator was forced to sign a treaty giving Texas its independence.
Who is Santa Anna?
created the first coffee firm in San Francisco
Who is Folger?
People with money to invest in business to make a profit
What is a capitalist?
Silver is discovered in 1859- the discovery is called this
What is the Comestock Lode?
the idea that one favors the needs of one's area of the country over the needs of an entire nation
What is Sectionalism?
In order to build a railroad from New Orleans to California, the United States spent 10 million dollars for a small strip of land at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
Texas became the 28th state of the United States after threatening to join as a territory of what nation
What is Great Britain?
the God-given right to expand from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
a siege fought for 12 days with 200 Texans and Santa Anna's army of over 6,000.
What is the Alamo?
Created the first blue jeans
Who is Levi Strauss?