Chapter 7 review Flashcards
What is manifest destiny?
God gave the continent to Americans to settle western land
What is the Preemption Act of 1830?
Squatters buy land from the government for a minimum price.
What did mountain men carve out?
Several east to west passages
What requirements did immigrants have to meet according to Mexican law?
No learn spanish
Under the National Colonization Act, Mexico gave 26 empresarios land in exchange for what?
Fill with a certain amount of settlers
Most Texans voted for what after winning independence?
Annexation
What did James K. Polk promise to do in the 1844 presidential election?
Annex Texas and Oregan and buy California.
What did 54 40 or Fight mean?
Want all of Oregan to the 54 40 parallel line
What did the U.S. give to Mexico under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
US payed Mexico $15 million dollars.
Who are squatters?
People who settle on land they did not own.
Oregon was claimed by whom?
Great Britain and the US
How did the Donner Party try to survive?
Cannibalism
Where did the Mormons settle?
Deseret, Utah
Why did Mexico invite others to settle in Texas?
They could not get their own citizens to settle near Native Americans
What was Stephen Austin imprisoned for?
Treason
Why did Martin Van Buren lose his party’s nomination in the 1844 election?
Wanted to Annex Texas as a slave state
Why did President Polk replace Zachary Taylor with Winfield Scott as commander of the forces in Mexico?
Saw him as a political rival
What was the southern border Texas?
Rio Grande
Alamo
Abandoned Spanish mission
William B. Travis
Commander of the Texas at the Alamo
Santa Anna
Captured at San Jacinto
Goliad
300 Texans executed here
Stephen Austin
Went to Mexico City to negotiate
San Jacinto
Ended the Texas revolution
