Chapter 13

Question 1

Oregon Trail

Answer 1

Overland trail of more than 2000 miles that carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah.

Question 2

Claim clubs

Answer 2

Groups of local settlers in the 19th century frontier who banded together to prevent the price of their land claims from being bid up by outsiders at public land auctions.

Question 3

Santa Fe Trail

Answer 3

The 900-mile trail opened by American merchants for trading purposes following Mexico’s liberalization of the formerly restrictive trading policies of Spain.

Question 4

Tejanos

Answer 4

A person of Spanish or Mexican descent born in Texas.

Question 5

Emprasario

Answer 5

Agents who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements.

Question 6

Alamo

Answer 6

Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas, that was the site in 1836 of a siege and massacre of Texans and Mexican troops.

Question 7

Californios

Answer 7

Persons of Spanish descent living in California.

Question 8

Mexican Cession of 1848

Answer 8

The addition of half a million square miles to the US as a result of victory in the 1846 war between the US and Mexico.

Question 9

Manifest Destiny

Answer 9

Doctrine, first expressed in 1845, that expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God.