Chapter 9 Expansion And Conflict

Question 1

During which President’s term did the boundaries of the nation stretch all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 1

James K Polk

Question 2

What term means Americans had a “God given right” to expand its culture across the country?

Answer 2

Manifest Destiny

Question 3

Who is the American who stated the 1st settlement in Texas in 1821?

Answer 3

Stephen Austin

Question 4

Who was elected president then made himself dictator of Mexico?

Answer 4

Santa Anna

Question 5

Name the 3 men who shared leadership responsibilities of the command at the Alamo?

Answer 5

William Travis
Jim Bowie
Davy Crockett

Question 6

Who was elected commander-in-chief of the Texan army and would become the nation’s 1st President?

Answer 6

Sam Houston

Question 7

What is the name of the battle where Texas won their independence?

Answer 7

San Jacinto

Question 8

What territory dis the United States want or desire with the campaign slogan “Fifty-four Forty or fight”?

Answer 8

Oregon

Question 9

What state was admitted as the 28th state in the Union and caused a severe strain in the political relations between the United States and Mexico?

Answer 9

Texas

Question 10

What is the name of the president who took over for William Henry Harrison in 1841 when the US boundary extended only to the western edge of the Louisiana?

Answer 10

John Tyler

Question 11

Who is the American general who moved US troops to the Rio Grande knowing it would cause a war?

Answer 11

Zachary Taylor

Question 12

Who is the congressman who went to the exact spot of where American blood was shed at the start of the Mexican War?

Answer 12

Abraham Lincoln

Question 13

What is the name of the American general who captured Mexico City?

Answer 13

Winfield Scott

Question 14

What is the name of the American who during the Mexican War captured Northern California and established the Bear Flag Republic?

Answer 14

John C Fremont

Question 15

What is the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican American War?

Answer 15

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 16

What is the name of the large area of land in what is now the south west United States - - it was taken from Mexicans as a result of the Mexican War?

Answer 16

Mexican Cession

Question 17

What is the name of the 45,000 square miles of Mexican land near the Gila River that the United States purchased?

Answer 17

Gadsden Purchase

Question 18

What is the name of the proposal in Congress that called for no slavery in any of the new lands acquired from Mexico?

Answer 18

Wilmot Proviso

Question 19

What is the term for the type of men who became social outcast by living in the mountains and trapping beaver?

Answer 19

Mountain Men

Question 20

What is the name of the road that was referred to as the “Trail of Commerce?”

Answer 20

Santa Fe Trail

Question 21

What is the - - once a year meeting where St. Louis merchants send goods out to the mountains and trade for furs?

Answer 21

The Rendezvous system

Question 22

What is the name of the road that was referred to as the “trail of settlement?”

Answer 22

Oregon Trail

Question 23

What is the name of the agreement in the US congress that came about as a result of the acquisition of territory from the Mexican War and the question of slavery in the area?

Answer 23

Compromise of 1850

Question 24

What famous book about slavery did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Answer 24

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 25

What is the act that was introduced by Stephen Douglas that opened the possibility of a transcontinental railroad through the central part of the country?

Answer 25

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 26

What is the term that means - - the people in the territory can vote on the issue of slavery?

Answer 26

Popular Sovereignty

Question 27

What is the name given to the violence in the state of Kansas between anti-slavery groups and pro-slavery groups?

Answer 27

Bloody Kansas

Question 28

What is the political party that was formed out of the opposition to the expansion of slavery?

Answer 28

Republican Party

Question 29

What is the name of the Supreme Court ruling that opened up the possibility of slavery in the north?

Answer 29

Dred Scott Decision

Question 30

What is the name of the man who tried to start a massive slave revolt by capturing the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 30

John Brown