Chapter 13: The Promise of the West

Question 0

What did Jedediah discover?

Answer 0

South Pass

Question 1

What was Jedediah Smith’s occupation?

Answer 1

A mountainman

Question 2

What was the South Pass?

Answer 2

A wagon route in Oregon

Question 3

What were Jedediah’s best friends?

Answer 3

Bible and rifle

Question 4

What was James Beckwourth’s occupation?

Answer 4

A black chief of the Crow Indian Tribe and a mountainman

Question 5

What did James find?

Answer 5

Found the Beckwourth Pass, which is a main wagon route through the Sierra Nevada mountains

Question 6

What was William Becknell nicknamed?

Answer 6

Father of the Santa Fe Trail

Question 7

What did William Bechnell do?

Answer 7

Sold goods 2000 times the amount they were worth for silver. Rich businessman

Question 8

What was ‘Search for the Book of Heaven’?

Answer 8

When four Indian Chiefs came to Missouri from Oregon looking for preacher and a Bible in their language.

Question 9

Who responded to Search for the Book of Heaven?

Answer 9

Jason Lee

Question 10

Who painted pictures of those four Indian Chiefs?

Answer 10

George Catlin

Question 11

What was John McLoughlin nicknamed?

Answer 11

Father of Oregon

Question 12

What was McLoughlin called by the Indians

Answer 12

White headed eagle

Question 13

What did Mcloughlin do

Answer 13

Established Fort Vancouver, which was a British fort for British Hudson Bay Company

Question 14

What was Whitman Mission

Answer 14

Missionary to Oregon, sends Dr. Whitman and Henry Spaulding with 120 wagons and over 1000 pioneers safely to Oregon

Question 15

What happened to Whitman

Answer 15

Killed by Indians in 1843

Question 16

What was the Great Migration

Answer 16

When 120 wagons and 1000 settlers came to Oregon

Question 17

Why was the Oregon trail established for people who wanted to move out west

Answer 17

Due to sickness, pollution, and dirty water

Question 18

Where should you start and stop on the Oregon Trail

Answer 18

Independence, Missouri ➡️ Independence Rock, Wyoming by 4th of July

Question 19

What was Wyeth known for?

Answer 19

He wrote detailed notes about his journey like animals and the Indians

Question 20

What big thing did John C. Fremont do

Answer 20

1st to travel through Sierra Nevada Mts in winter to California

Question 21

What did Fremont led and what was it

Answer 21

The Bear Flag Revolt, turned the city of Sonoma, Mexico in Cali to be a country for one day, stopped by USA and Cali became a state

Question 22

Describe the flag of the Bear Flag Revolt

Answer 22

Bear on the flag with one star on it

Question 23

What happened at Sutter’s Mill?

Answer 23

John Sutter’s built a mill for business, but John Marshall found gold 98 2/3 pure. People came to pan for gold were called forty-miners. Sutter’s went bankrupt

Question 24

What was Stephen Austin’s nickname

Answer 24

Father of Texas

Question 25

What did Stephen Austin do

Answer 25

Got Americans to settle in Mexican Texas with freedom of religion

Question 26

Who was Santa Anna and what did he do

Answer 26

Leader of Mexico and imposes military rule on Americans, treated the, unfairly and declared himself dictator in 1834

Question 27

What was ‘Remember the Alamo’ about

Answer 27

148 Americans go against 3,000 Mexican for 3 weeks. Crockett, Travis, and Bowie were there. Mexico wins

Question 28

What battle did Texas become its own country? What was their flag, and what phrase was shouted during this short battle?

Answer 28

Battle of San Jacinto; flag has one lone star on it; “Remember the Alamo” was shouted

Question 29

Who became the first president in 1836

Answer 29

Sam Houston who was the head of the Texas militia

Question 30

Meanwhile in USA what who were the two men running for president? Describe them.

Answer 30

James Polk, slogan: “Fifty-four forty or fight”, believed in manifest destiny; Henry Clay ran against him

Question 31

What is manifest destiny

Answer 31

The idea that it is USA’s destiny to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Question 32

In 1845 who is president, and what happens to the states

Answer 32

James Polk, Florida becomes a slave state, Texas enters as a slave state

Question 33

What was the Oregon Treaty of 1846

Answer 33

British and USA concerning Oregon. USA got Idaho, Washington, Oregon

Question 34

Who tries to invade Texas again, but who stops him?

Answer 34

Santa Anna; General Zachary Taylor at Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico

Question 35

Who was the general that got Veracruz, Mexico, and Mexico City

Answer 35

General Winfield Scott

Question 36

What was the treaty that gave USA lots of land including the Rio Grande

Answer 36

Treaty of Guadalupe