Unit 4 Test

Question 0

What was the murder of about 120 westward settlers in Utah?

Answer 0

Mountain meadow massacre

Question 1

What was the major result of the California gold rush?

Answer 1

Diversity in society

Question 2

What was one thing German immigrants brought with them to America?

Answer 2

Christmas tree and Kentucky rifles

Question 3

What was the name of the battle in which Texans ambushed the sleeping Mexican army in retaliation for the Alamo ?

Answer 3

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 4

Which Mormon leader ordered the attack on the westward settlers passing through Utah ?

Answer 4

John D Lee

Question 5

What act tried to help California Indians affected by the gold rush?

Answer 5

Act for the government protection of Indians

Question 6

Group tracked in the Rocky Mountains?

Answer 6

Donner Party

Question 7

What was the name of the battle that ended that war in Mexico?

Answer 7

Battle of Buena vista

Question 8

Who were the two leading generals in the Mexican American war?

Answer 8

Zackary Taylor and Winfield Scott

Question 9

On whom did the Mormons try to blame the attack on the westward settlers?

Answer 9

Native Americans

Question 10

On what date did California become a state?

Answer 10

September 9,1850

Question 11

What was a problem with the early railroad system?

Answer 11

Made of iron so it rusted, brea, weather, froze, sparked, made of wood

Question 12

Which president sent an army to put down the Mormon rebellion?

Answer 12

Buchanan

Question 13

What were two jobs held by woman in the gold rush?

Answer 13

Prostitution, seamstress, laundress, shop owners

Question 14

What was the name of the first steamboat to sail across the Atlantic?

Answer 14

Savanna

Question 15

What was a nickname for the Mexican American war?

Answer 15

Polks war

Question 16

How did Californians try to limit the rights of immigrants to mine for gold?

Answer 16

Foreign miners tax

Question 17

Group passing through Utah?

Answer 17

Thatcher band

Question 18

What were the two borders in dispute between Mexico and the U.S.?

Answer 18

The rio grande and Nueces rivers.

Question 19

What was the first national highway?

Answer 19

Cumberland Road

Question 20

What political postion did Brigham young hold?

Answer 20

Governor of Utah

Question 21

What was the indian war that resulted from the Oregon trail settlement?

Answer 21

Cayuse war

Question 22

What was the largest immigrant group that came to California for the gold rush?

Answer 22

Chinese

Question 23

List one reason for immigration to US during the 1840-1860?

Answer 23

Potato famine, letters home, overpopulation in Europe

Question 24

What is the famous chant sung by the army when they retaliated against the Mexican army for killing Texans?

Answer 24

Remember the Alamo

Question 25

What was the group of alleged Mormon assassins?

Answer 25

Avenging Angels

Question 26

First ghostown?

Answer 26

San Francisco

Question 27

Why did the cayuse Indian attack the whitmans?

Answer 27

Because they believed the whitmans were using witchcraft

Question 28

What were several common problems brought on by western population and urbanization?

Answer 28

Slums, impure water, sewage and garbage overflow

Question 29

Who were the two frontiersmen that were killed at the Alamo?

Answer 29

Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie

Question 30

What did the Mormons practice that government disapproved of?

Answer 30

Polygamy

Question 31

What were gold miners called?

Answer 31

49ers

Question 32

What was the First National park?

Answer 32

Yellowstone

Question 33

Which group of Indians attacked and killed the whitmans?

Answer 33

Cayuse Indians

Question 34

Who was the leader of independent Texas?

Answer 34

Sam Houston

Question 35

What did the Mormons call their refuge in Utah?

Answer 35

Deseret

Question 36

What did the whitmans start on the Oregon trail?

Answer 36

School, and churches

Question 37

Who were the two famous missionary couples that settled along the Oregon trail?

Answer 37

Henry and Eliza Spalding and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman