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What was the idea of Manifest Destiny? Who coined the term? |
Manifest destiny is the idea of American Expansionism. It was coined by John L O'Sullivan. He thought that god destined America to expand. |
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Who occupied the Great Plains and the Far West before the white pioneers began to settle? |
The Native Americans. There were 325,000 of them in that area. |
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How many different tribes west of the Mississippi River were living there before the white settlers began to pour into the region in 1840. |
There were more than 200 tribes. |
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What effect did Mexico’s independence from Spain has in the American settlements in the southwest |
American fur traders streamed into New Mexico and Arizona and developed a lucrative commerce in beaver pelts. American entrepreneurs also flooded into the western Mexican province of California and soon became a powerful force for change. |
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Who were the mountain men? |
They were the first whites to find their way around the Rocky Mountains, and they pioneered the trails that settlers by the 1840s were beginning to travel as they flooded the Oregon Country and trickled across the border into California. |
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Why did trade along the Santa Fe Trail begin to flourish after Mexico gained its independence from Spain? |
Spain had closed all interaction with United States in Santa Fe. When mexico became independent trade flourished and the mexican silver peso became the primary currency in missouri. |
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How did most of the settlers going west travel? |
Many people went with their families overland by caravan. They mostly followed trails west however some went off trail. |
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How did Plain Indians help the white pioneers during their harsh journies? |
Plains Indians would supply buffalo meat and skins. |
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What did the Treaty of Laramie foreshadow? |
the “reservation” concept that would come to define Indian life by the end of the nineteenth century. |
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What was the main reason for the Donner Party tragic end? |
They had made foolish mistake which ended in them being marooned with little food. They began cannibalism to survive. By the time the rescue came 13 settlers died. And the leader, George Donner decided to stay and die. His wife joined him. |
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Why was John Fremont so influential in encouraging immigration of Americans to Oregon and California? |
He swept down the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, headed southward through the central valley of Mexican California, and returned via the Great Salt Lake in Utah. His excited reports on both expeditions gained a wide circulation and played a crucial role in prompting the mass migration of American settlers to Oregon and California. |
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Why did most Americans settle in Texas? |
Most of the newcomers were southern or western farmers drawn to rich new cotton land selling for only a few cents an acre. |
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What was the main reason the Mexican government attempted to curtail American settlement of Texas? |
American's were bringing in slaves which the Mexicans opposed. They also thought that the American settlers weren't loyal to Mexico |
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Why did the Anglo Texan rebel against the Mexican government? |
Anglo Texans feared that the new Mexican leader intended to free “our slaves and to make slaves of us.” In the fall of 1835, wary Texans rebelled against Santa Anna’s “despotism.” |
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Who won the Battle of the Alamo? |
The Mexicans won however it was a very costly war for them. |
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When did Texas gain its independence? Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas? |
In April 21-23 1836 Texas gained its independence and named Sam Houston its president. |
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When was Texas admitted to the Union? |
December 29 1845 |
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Why did the Mexican government break off relations with the United Sates? (p. 445) |
They broke off relations because of the annexation of Texas. |
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What did President Polk want war with Mexico? What was Polk’s scheme to start the war? |
Polk ordered several thousand U.S. troops under General Zachary Taylor to advance some 150 miles south of the Texas frontier and take up positions around Corpus Christi, near the Rio Grande. He wanted to provoke an attack from Mexico. |
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Who were among the vocal opponents of the Mexican War? |
Many vocal opponents like Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Daniel webster, and William Lloyd Garrison. |
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Why did Daniel Webster oppose to the Mexican War? |
He was convinced that the outbreak of war with Mexico was driven by a Democratic party scheme to add more slave states to the Union. |
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When California was proclaimed part of the United States? |
September 9 1850 |
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Where was the decisive victory of the war? |
In Mexico City |
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What was the Treaty of Guadalupe? |
Mexico gave up all claims to Texas above the Rio Grande and ceded California and New Mexico to the United States. In return for the transfer of half a million square miles of territory, more than half of all of Mexico, the United States agreed to pay $15 million and assume the claims of U.S. citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million. |
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How did the Mexican American war deepen sectional divisions in the United States? |
It was increasingly seen as a shameful war of conquest and imperialistic plunder directed by a president bent on territorial expansion for the sake of slavery |
