Vocabulary
Texas
California
100
Henry Clay came up with a ________ that let California join the Union as a free state.
What is compromise?
100
The land of Texas belonged to what empire?
What is Spanish empire?
100
When did California become a state?
18509
200
Mexico had to ___________ to the United States in 1848 when they lost the war.
What is surrender?
200
Why did Mexican government invite Americans to settle in Texas?
Mexico wanted to build its population. Few people lived in Texas.
200
What was discovered in California in 1848?
Gold
300
There were __________ between the North and South because of slavery.
What is conflicts?
300
What was the imbalance in the population of Texas?
There were more Americans than Mexicans living in Texas.
300
Why did the population of California soar during the mid 1800s?
People came from Mexico and China looking for gold. They thought they could become rich.
400
They searched for gold in California.
What is forty-niners?
400
Who was the Mexican dictator?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
400
What sparked a crisis between North and South?
California asked to be a state.
500
The idea that the United States had the right to own and settle lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
In what year did Texas become a state?
1845
500
What are some of the reasons for conflicts between North and South?
1. The reasons for conflicts between the North and the South were debates over California as a free state. The North said yes and the South said no. 2.The Fugitive Slave Act was an important issue as well. 3.The North and the South could not agree on slavery