Government
What does each of the 3 branches of government do?
Executive- enforce laws
Legislative - make laws
Judicial - decide constitutionality of laws
Name 3 types of people who moved West.
Possible Answers:
Explorers, Californios, Mountain Men, Gold prospectors, pioneer families, Mormon settlers, Chinese
Name 3 trails that we talked about.
Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, California Trail, Old Spanish Trail
What group of immigrants was especially influential in building the transcontinental railroad?
What does the phrase "Remember the Alamo" come from?
Mexican soldiers surrounded Fort Alamo and slaughtered over 200 people. It became a battle cry for the Mexican American War.
What is the name of the group that elects the president?
Electoral College
What are push and pull factors? Give an example of each in terms of Westward Expansion
Push factors - things that make you move from a place
Pull factors - things that draw you to a new place.
What were some of the ways people got out west as far as transportation?
Covered Wagon, Steamboat, Train, Raft
Name two impacts the invention of the steamboat had on civilization.
Easier travel
Goods can travel faster
Heavier goods can be transported
Why did Mexico invite Americans to move to Texas and what were there conditions on giving them land?
They needed to populate the area. The newcomers were supposed to practice Catholicism, obey Mexican laws, and no slavery.
How many Senators does each state have?
2
Name three reasons people moved West.
possible answers -
gold, land, a new start, religious freedom,
What was interesting about the Donner party?
They were stranded in a snow storm for 5 months in the mountains and turned to cannibalism for some to survive.
What was the name of the government act that gave land to people who would move out west and farm/live on the land?
Homestead act
Why did Americans moving to Texas when Mexico owned it backfire?
American Texans did not follow Mexico's rules and soon outnumbered Mexican Texans 10-1.
How many representatives does each state have in the House of Representatives?
Decided based on population
In 1775, who started the exploration of the West with an expedition that went through the Cumberland Gap and made the trail through the wilderness into Kentucky.
Daniel Boone
What animal was all over the plains when westward expansion started and what happened to it?
American Bison (Buffalo)
They were overhunted to extinction
How did the Cotton Gin affect slavery?
It made cotton easier to use by providing an easy cleaning method. This increased cotton plantations and slavery in the South.
Was the US justified in going to war with Mexico?
varied answers
What do we commonly call the 2 parts of the legislative branch together. What is each branch called individually?
Congress
Senate and House of Representatives
What was the belief system called that enabled the United States to take over the continent. What was it?
Manifest Destiny
God had given us the continent for us to expand and own it all.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Forced removal of Native Americans who were forced to move out west off their native lands.
They had to walk over 1000 miles in harsh conditions and 1/3 of them died.
What do we call the invention of and dependence on machinery and factories.
Industrialization
What was the result of the Mexican American War.
The United States won and got a lot of land from Mexico. The Mexico Cession. Land that eventually became many western states like California, Utah, Nevada