Chapter 9...ish

Question 0

Sam Houston

Answer 0

Led the texans to draw Santa Anna toward a trap where they crushed the Mexican army (and captured Santa Anna who then signed a treaty recognizing TX as independent)

Question 1

Lone star republic

Answer 1

Texas rebelled against Mexican rule and this was their new nation because of the lone star on their flag

Question 2

Clay opposes the ______if Texas while Polk favors it

Answer 2

Annexation

Question 3

What was Congress’s decision for the annexation of Texas?

Answer 3

They admitted Texas as a slave state in 1845

Question 4

What war set Texas apart from Mexico and Into the US?

Answer 4

The Mexican-American war

Question 5

Zachary Taylor

Answer 5

General who occupy the contested borderland between the Nueces river and the Rio Grande

Question 6

California gold rush

Answer 6

Some 80000 Fortune seekers headed for Cali in search of riches

Question 7

What were the people who went to Cali for riches called?

Answer 7

Forty-niners

Question 8

Results of gold rush

Answer 8

Indians and Mexicans faced discrimination
California seeks free state statehood which led to major division among north and south (upset balance) and eventually led to civil war

Question 9

Gadsden purchase

Answer 9

1853 US obtained another 29,640 sq miles in Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico

Question 10

Wilmot proviso

Answer 10

1846 proposed by Whig saying it would ban slavery in any lands won from Mexico

Question 11

Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

Answer 11

Forces Mexico to give up northern third of their country and added 1.2 million sq miles of territory to the US