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38 Cards in this Set
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What helped push the American fur trade to move westward in the early 1800s? |
The "high hat" a water repellent hat made of beaver and was water repellent and was very popular and beavers were the west |
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Mountain men |
fur traders and trappers |
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How did the U.S government help traders traveling on the Santa Fe Trail? |
The U.S sent troops to make sure Native Americans were not a threat |
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What put an end to American fur trading in the 1840s? |
Fashions changed and beavers became scarce |
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How long did it take to travel the Oregon Trail |
4-6 months |
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why did the Mormons move from NY to the west in the early 1830s |
They were in search of religious freedom |
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What pratice caused Mormons to be persecuted in the 1850s |
They were polygamist |
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When did Brigham Young became head of the Mormon Church? |
1844 |
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What did Father Hidalgo y Costilla rebellion in 1810 inspire |
hoped that if Mexico became independent from Spanish mornarchy, their lives would improve |
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Empresarios |
agents |
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Stephen F Austin |
started a TX colony and brought the first 300 families to TX |
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How did Texan settlers disobey Mexican laws in the 1820s |
they brought slaves |
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how many people were killed in the battle at the Alamo in 1836 |
350 |
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How did the Texans gain victory in the Battle of San Jacinto |
the mexican troops were resting and then Houston's forces swarmed the camp and destroyed Santa Anna's army |
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why did president jackson first refuse to annex Texas |
to keep the balance between slave state and non slave state |
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manifest destiny |
Obvious fate to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy |
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How did the slavery issue get tied up with the doctrine of manifest destiny in the 1840s and 50s |
Americans did not know if the insituition of slavery would be allowed in the new territorues |
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Californios |
early settlers in CA |
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What did the American expansionist slogan Fifty-four forty or fight to? |
this referred to the 54 40 north latitude then line which americans wanted their northern territory border to expand |
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why did some politicians support Jame K Polk interest in annexing Oregon |
to keep the balance between slave states and non slave states |
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In the 1840s President John Tyler fell out of favor with his party when he argued that the annexation of TX would do what |
He worried that admitting TX would upset the balance of free and slave states |
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in 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain. How did officals change Spanish policy in CA as a result |
it adopted a republican consititution that declared rights for all Mexicans |
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what was true about the US army at the beginning of the Mexican-American War |
The US army outnumbered the Mexican army |
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When U.S army captian John C Fremont joined the revolt in Sonoma in 1846 he wanted CA to do what? |
become independent |
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what happened during the Bear Flag Revolt |
Americans declared CA to be an independent nation |
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how did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed in 1848 affect the US |
it officially ended the war and forced MX to turn over most of its northern territory to the US |
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Gadsden Purchase |
We paid MX $10 million for southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona |
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Which challenge did Mexican Americans face when American settlers poured into the Southwest after the Mexican War |
most mexican americans suffered legal economics and social discrimination |
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How did various cultures shaped one another in the SW after the Mexican Cession |
culture diffusion, every culture learned something from each other and adopted different ways to live |
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How did Brighan Young's influence resolve the western dispute over water rights |
he said that the good of the community overuled individuals in their need of water |
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why did a growing number of americans travel the CA trail from the 1830s t0 1840s |
trading goods made in factories to the few settlements |
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What lesson might a western traveler have learned from the story of the Donner party |
to not travel through the mountains in the winter |
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forty-niners |
young single men looking to strike it rich |
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Women generally made money in mining communities by doing what jobs |
cooking, wash clothes and operated boarding houses |
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placer minning |
done along rivers and stream and they used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rocks |
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what happened to CA population as a result of the Gold Rush |
it boomed |
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as a result of the population explosion of the gold fever years, when did CA become a state |
2 years |
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what role did the transcontinental railroad play in CA development |
it brought more and more people to CA and made it easier for people to get to CA |
