History 05 Chapter 7 8 9 And 10

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7.1 Tejas (Texas) was settled by __________ and 300 settlers.

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Moses Austin

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7.2 The president of Mexico in 1833 was ______________

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Santa Anna

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7.3 When Santa Anna abolished the 1824 Constitution, the Texans declared their ___________ from Mexico.

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independence

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7.4 An old Catholic mission called the ______________ was used to defend the Texans against Mexican troops.

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Alamo

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7.5 Two heroes of the early West who died fighting for Texas were _____________ and _________.

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Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie

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7.6 Santa Anna massacred all Texan prisoners at _____________.

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Golliad

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7.7 With his small 800-man army _____________ defeated Santa Anna and his men.

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Sam Houston

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7.8 The Battle of ________________________________took place six weeks after the Alamo fell.

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San Jacinto

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7.9 Texas is called the________________________State.

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Lone Star

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7.10 Andrew Jackson's hand-picked successor was ____________________________.

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Martin Van Buren

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7.11 President ______________ died of pneumonia thirty days after his inauguration.

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Harrison

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7.12 The God-given privilege from America to occupy all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is known as _________________________________________.

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Manifest Destiny

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7.13 "54-40" referred to the northern boundary of the ________________________________ Territory.

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Northern

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7.14 _______________ was an anti-Expansionist and lost the presidency to Polk.

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Henry Clay

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7.15 Polk sent Zachary Taylor, known as ________________________________________to win the disput4ed 120 mile strip from Mexico

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Old Rough and Ready

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7.16 Major Kearney's battalion marched into ____________________and replaced the Mexican flag with the Stars and Stripes

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Santa Fe

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7.17 The ____________________________ was over at the final Battle of Chapuetapec.

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Mexican War

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8.1 The Latter Day Saints are also known as the _________________.

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Mormons

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8.2 _________________ succeeded Joseph Smith and established their religion in Utah.

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Brigham Young

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8.3 The Mormon Temple is located in _________________, Utah

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Salt Lake City

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8.4 In 1846, Californians declared their independence from _________________.

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Mexico

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8.5 Californians called their country the _________________Republic.

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Bear Flag

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8.6 The Great Pathfinder was _________________.

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Captain John Fremont

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8.7 _________________was a famous mountain man, guide and trapper who aided Fremont

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Kit Carson

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8.8 Gold was discovered at _________________ in 1848.

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Sutter's Mill

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8.9 Gold-hungry prospectors rushing to California (Gold Rush) from all over the world were known as the _________________.

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forty-niners

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8.10 Scooping up gravel into large tin pans and swirling water to wash away the mud was called _________________.

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panning

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8.11 _________________ was the first California city to grow up overnight due to the gold rush.

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San Francisco

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8.12 Meat from _________________was served in steakhouses

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.Argentina

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8.13 California desperately needed centralized government control that only _________________ could provide.

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United States

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9.1 The first famous land route from he Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was blazed by ____________.

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Lewis and Clark

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9.2 The explorers originally crossed the Rocky Mountains at ____________ Pass, a very difficult gap.

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Lolo

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9.3 After 1812, South Pass in modern ____________ was discovered and used.

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Wyoming

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9.4 ____________ led Oregon Dragoons to drive out the British fur trading companies.

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Thomas Farnham

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9.5 A dragoon is a ____________.

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cavalryman (or soliders on a horse)

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9.6 The Dragoons' banner stated, Oregon or ____________

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the Grave

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9.7 The title of ____________ was bestowed upon John McLoughlin.

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Father of Oregon.

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9. John McLoughlin was knighted by ____________.

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Queen Victoria

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9.9 Catholic missionaries in the 1800's were known as ____________.

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Black Robes

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9.10 ____________ is known as the Apostle of the Rockies,

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Fr. Peter DeSmet

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10.2 ________________ wagons were a mainstay for pioneers going West.

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Conestoga

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10.3 Covered wagons were nicknamed ________________

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Prairie Schooners

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10.1 The route from Cumberland, Maryland, westward to Illinois was called the ________________.

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National Road

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10.4 The inventor of the first steamboat was ________________.

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Robert Fulton.

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10.5 The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with the ________________.

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Hudson River

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10.6 ________________ invented the cotton gin.

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Eli Whitney

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10.7 Gin" was short for the word ________________.

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engine

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10.8 Before Cotton, the major Southern exports were tobacco and ________________.

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rice

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10.9 The ________________ was the first steamboat to travel from New York City to Albany, New York.

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Clermont

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10.10 In 1798 ________________ devised a way to harness steam

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Robert Livingston

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10.11The ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean on steam power alone was the ________________.

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S.S Sirius

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10.12 The ________________ was created to carry mail and news to California from Missouri in 10 days or less.

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Pony Express

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10.13 The first city-to-city telegraph system between Washington and Baltimore was demonstrated by its inventor ________________.

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Samuel Morse

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10.14 The first train from Baltimore over the mountains to the Ohio River was________________.

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B & O.

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10.15 The railroad was nicknamed the ________________.

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Iron Horse

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10.16 The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, ________________ was invited to the railroad's first ground-breaking ceremony.

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Charles Caroll

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10.17 ________________ on rails were the first American railroads.

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Stagecoaches

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10.18 The invention of the railroad in 1860's can be likened to the invention of the ________________ in the 20th century.

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airplane

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10.19 ________________ invented the reaper for cutting grain.

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Cyrus McCormick