Chapter 9 - Test

Question 1

Invented the metal plow

Answer 1

John Deere

Question 2

Mexicans in Texas were called this

Answer 2

Tejanos

Question 3

Invented the mechanical reaper

Answer 3

Cyrus McCormick

Question 4

Americans in Texas called themselves

Answer 4

Texians

Question 5

Name one mountain man

Answer 5

Kit Carson - Jim Bridger

Question 6

Name three east to west trails

Answer 6

Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, and California Trail

Question 7

The Alamo is located in what city?

Answer 7

San Antonio

Question 8

To give up or give away

Answer 8

Cede

Question 9

1st rendezvous held here

Answer 9

Henry Forks, Wyoming

Question 10

Wagons used by settlers moving west

Answer 10

Conestoga

Question 11

People who settled on land they didn’t own

Answer 11

Squatters

Question 12

Santa Anna was deleted by Houston in this place

Answer 12

San Jacinto

Question 13

Settlers moving west said that prairie scooners looked like ships sailing on…

Answer 13

A sea of grass

Question 14

Name of California before it became a state

Answer 14

Bear Flag Republic

Question 15

First empresario

Answer 15

Stephen Austin

Question 16

Led Mormons to Utah

Answer 16

Brigham Young

Question 17

Name of Texas before it became a state

Answer 17

Lonestar Republic

Question 18

Made a knife that was named after him

Answer 18

James Bowie

Question 19

Texans refused to surrender their cannon in this town

Answer 19

Gonzales

Question 20

Treaty ended the war with Mexico

Answer 20

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 21

Believed that he was executed after the battle of the Alamo

Answer 21

Davy Crockett

Question 22

Military leader and first to die at the Alamo

Answer 22

William Travis

Question 23

People who were given land to bring settlers to Texas

Answer 23

Empresarios

Question 24

Led the American Army in the war with Mexico

Answer 24

Winfield Scott

Question 25

The act of being taken as a state by the U.S. government

Answer 25

Annexation

Question 26

Used to determine which men would stay and fight in the Alamo

Answer 26

Line drawn in the Sand

Question 27

Name either of the two native tribes whose fierce nature made Mexicans hesitate to move to Texas

Answer 27

Apache or Comanche

Question 28

Dictator of Mexico

Answer 28

Santa Anna

Question 29

Americans who traveled west in wagons

Answer 29

Over landers

Question 30

Fannan and his troops were executed at...

Answer 30

Goliad

Question 31

Yearly meeting held by mountain men

Answer 31

Rendezvous

Question 32

Women was a survivor of the Alamo

Answer 32

Susanna Dickinson

Question 33

5 states that belonged to the U.S. because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 33

California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado

Question 34

Fur trading post was founded by Jacob Aston on the coast of Washington

Answer 34

Astoria

Question 35

Members of this party practiced cannabilism

Answer 35

Donner party

Question 36

President of Texas

Answer 36

Sam Houston

Question 37

Idea that Americans were meant to occupy western lands

Answer 37

Manifest Destiny

Question 38

Pathfinder

Answer 38

John Frémont

Question 39

Mormons called the city they founded in Utah...

Answer 39

Deseret

Question 40

Gave squatters the right to but 160 acres of land for $1.25 per acre

Answer 40

Preemption act of 1830

Question 41

The U.S. And Britain both claimed this land in the northwest

Answer 41

Oregon

Question 42

Mexicans called Texians

Answer 42

Anglos

Question 43

Fort was a major stop for settlers moving west

Answer 43

Fort Laramie

Question 44

First 300 people brought to Texas by Stephen Austin

Answer 44

Old 300

Question 45

Capital of the Texians/Texicans

Answer 45

Washing on the Brazos

Question 46

3 leaders of the Alamo

Answer 46

Davy Crockett Williams Travis James Bowie

Question 47

Alabama was originally part of the ____ territory

Answer 47

Mississippi

Question 48

1st settler who came into Pickens county

Answer 48

Josiah Tilley

Question 49

Alabama became a state in _____

Answer 49

1819

Question 50

What was Alabama's first capital

Answer 50

Cahaba

Question 51

Capital was moved to _____ in 1836

Answer 51

Tuscaloosa

Question 52

Tilley came to ____ in 1817

Answer 52

Pickensville

Question 53

______ is the oldest town in PC

Answer 53

Pickensville

Question 54

___ became the county seat in 1830

Answer 54

Carrollton

Question 55

Named for battle of Cerro Gordo

Answer 55

Gordo

Question 56

Lorenzo Dow came and preached that this certain town needed ____ and they were named ____

Answer 56

Reforming; Reform

Question 57

Aliceville is made of two towns... Named for... Established...

Answer 57

Bridgeville and Franconia; David Cochrane's wife, Alice; 1904

Question 58

Discussion: The Alamo

Answer 58

You will have to do that on your own :)

Question 59

Young lawyer who became governor of Carrollton

Answer 59

Samuel B. Moore

Question 60

Flower that blooms only at the Cahaba River

Answer 60

Cahaba Lily