Chapter 9: US Westward Expansion Flashcards
Land Grant
S P E
The gift of public land to an individual or organization
Stephen F. Austin
S P
Man who led some of the first several Americans west along the Brazos River
Antonio Lopez De Santa Ana
S P
He suspended the 1824 Mexican constitution and imprisoned Austin for inciting revolution , killed everyone in The Alamo
James K. Polk
S P I(?) E
Was a US president who urged war with Mexico, mainly for land and economic gain.
Zachary Taylor
S P I
He was Polk’s general, and he was supposed to march to Rio Grande and block the river in the war.
Stephen Kearny
S P I
He was Polk’s Colonel. Polk ordered Kearny to march west, from Kansas to Santa Fe…. Across the desert.
Republic of California
S P I E
Because he wandered across this big desert from Kansas to Santa Fe, Kearny stumbled across California and loudly proclaimed that it as the Republic of California
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
S P I E
It was when Mexico signed a treaty with us: they agreed on the Rio Grande border of Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States.
Gadsden Purchase
S I E
This established the current borders of the lower 48 states.
forty-niners
S I T E
They were prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the Gold Rush, these people mainly being from Asia, South America, and Europe
gold rush
S I E
This was when there was lots of gold up in California and everyone traveled west thinking they could strike it rich.
