Ch. 9 Study Guide
Zachary Taylor forty-niners
Sam Houston Oregon Trail Manifest Destiny
Star Republic Treaty of Fort Laramie Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo James K. Polk
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Why did New Mexico, Texas, & California attract expansionists in the 1820s?
Where did the Mormons led by Brigham Young settle in the 1840s & 1850s?
Who seized power in the 1834 Mexico City revolt?
What did both Anglo-Texans and Tejanos do in the mid-1830s?
Who was president of the U.S. during the Mexican-American War?
Which group of Native Americans did Spanish colonists in New Mexico depend on for
protection?
The Mormons established a new colony called?
What Texan leader defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto?
Where did Winfield Scott face bitter resistance from the Mexican army?
At the end of the Mexican-American War, the U.S. paid $15 million and left Mexico City in return
for what?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase increased the area of the U.S. by
how much?
During the California gold rush, about 25,000 laborers migrated to California from where?
Where does the California Trail separate from the Oregon Trail?
People who believed in Manifest Destiny were known as?
The state constitution drawn up by Californians at a convention in 1849 was notable for
excluding what?
What was the purpose of the Wilmot Proviso?
What effect did the Wilmot Proviso have on relations between the North and the South?
In the 1820s Mexico invited American settlers into where?
What happened to General Santa Anna in April 1836?
Which group was enthusiastically in favor of war with Mexico?
How did the U.S. government encourage migration in the early 1800s?