Chapter 7
Tejas was settled by ____________ ____________ and 300 settlers.
Moses Austin
President ____________ died of pneumonia thirty days after his inauguration.
Harrison
The Latter Day Saints are also known as the _________________.
Mormons
________________ was the first California city to grow up overnight due to the gold rush.
San Francisco
The first famous land route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was blazed by ___________ and _________.
Lewis and Clark
The route from Cumberland, Maryland, westward to Illinois was called ____________________.
National Road
The ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean on steam power alone was called ____________________.
SS Sirius
The president of Mexico in 1833 was ________ _______.
Santa Anna
"54-40" referred to the northern boundary of the _____________ Territory.
Oregon
________________ succeeded Joseph Smith and established their religion in Utah.
Brigham Young
Meat from _____________ was served in steakhouses.
Argentina
The explorers originally crossed the Rocky Mountains at ____________ Pass, a very difficult gap.
Lolo
__________________ wagons were a mainstay for pioneers going West.
Conestoga
The _________________ was created to carry mail and news to California from Missouri in 10 days or less.
Pony Express
When he abolished the 1824 Constitution, the Texans declared their ________________ from Mexico.
independence
__________________ was an anti-Expansionist and lost the presidency to Polk.
Henry Clay
The Mormon Temple is located in __________________, Utah.
Salt Lake City
California desperately needed centralized government control that only ______________ could provide.
statehood (becoming part of the United States)
After 1812, South Pass in modern _____________ was discovered and used.
Wyoming
Conestoga Wagons were nicknamed " _____________________."
prairie schooners
The first city-to-city telegraph system between Washington and Baltimore was demonstrated by its inventor, ____________________.
Samuel Morse (he invented Morse Code)
An old Catholic mission called the _____________ was used to defend the Texans against Mexican troops.
Alamo
Polk sent Zachary Taylor, known as ____________________, to win the disputed 120-mile strip from Mexico.
Old Rough and Ready
In 1846, Californians declared their independence from ____________.
Mexico
________________ led the Oregon Dragoons to drive our British fur trading companies.
Thomas Farnham
The inventor of the first steamboat was _____________________.
Robert Fulton
The first railroad from Baltimore over the mountains to the Ohio River was the ____________________.
Baltimore & Ohio (B & O)
Two heroes of the early West who died fighting for Texas were _______________ and ____________.
Jim Bowie; Davie Crocket
Major Kearney's battalion marched into _____________ and replaced the Mexican flag with the Stars and Stripes.
Santa Fe
Californians called their country the "__________________" Republic.
Bear Flag
A dragoon is a _______________.
calvaryman (or a soldier on a horse)
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with the ______________ River.
Hudson River
The railroad locomotive was nicknamed the "______________".
iron horse
Santa Anna massacred all Texan prisoners at ___________.
Goliad
The ________________ War was over at the final Battle of Chapultepec in 1847.
Mexican
The Great Pathfinder was ___________________.
John Fremont
The Dragoons' banner stated, "Oregon or _______".
the Grave
___________________ invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, __________________, was invited to the railroad's first ground-breaking ceremony.
Charles Carroll
With his small 800-man army, ______________ defeated Santa Anna and his men.
General Sam Houston
___________________ was a famous mountain main, guide, and trapper who aided Fremont.
Kit Carson
The title of "______________________" was bestowed upon John McLoughlin.
The Father of Oregon
"Gin" in cotton gin was short for the word "________".
engine
____________ on rails were the first American railroads.
Stagecoaches
The Battle of _________________ took place six weeks after the Alamo fell.
San Jacinto
Gold was discovered in _______________ in 1848.
Sutter's Mill
John McLoughlin, The Father of Oregon, was knighted by __________________.
Queen Victoria
Before cotton, the major Southern exports were tobacco and ___________.
rice
The invention of the railroad in the 1860s can be likened to the invention of the _______________ in the 20th century.
airplane
Texas is called the _________________ State.
Lone Star
Gold-hungry prospectors rushing to California from all over the world were known as the "_________________".
forty-niners
Catholic missionaries in the 1800s were known as ____________________.
blackrobes
_________________ was the name of the first steamboat to travel from New York City to Albany, New York.
Clermont
Andrew Jackson's hand-picked successor was __________________________.
Martin Van Buren
Scooping up gravel into large tin pans and swirling water to wash away the mud was called ____________.
panning
Father _____________________ is known as the "Apostle of the Rockies."
Peter De Smet
In 1798, ______________________ devised a way to harness steam.
Robert Livingston