1. What did
expansionists want to
acquire?
• Expansionists wanted to gain the territories
of northern Mexico
2. What role did
• Mountain Men explored the Rocky
Mountains and established new trails, which
Mountain Men play in the
settlers used to travel westward.
settlement of the West?
Reading Check – Who led
the Mormons to settle on
the shore of the Great Salt
Lake?
• Brigham Young
Commencing:
• commencing: beginning a
project or an
enterprise
Reading Skill: Identify Main
Ideas – What was the most
common method for
settlers to move westward?
• Most settlers took wagon
trains on major
trails
1.
Expansionist:
an American
who favored
growth of the
nation and its
territories.
2. Santa Fe
Trail:
connected
Missouri to
the capital of
New Mexico
and served as
an important
trade route.
3. Mountain
Men:
American
trappers who
worked in the
Rockies.
4. Oregon
Trail:
Important
route to the
Pacific
Northwest
5. Brigham
Young: Led
an exodus of
Mormons
across the
Great Plains
and the
Rockies
6. Treaty of
Fort Laramie:
protected
emigrants by
restricting
the Plains
Indians
7. C - the Apaches
8. B - Manifest Destiny
9. A - the Great Plains
10. C - New Zion
1. How did Texas
come to be
dominated by
American settlers?
Mexico invited Americans
to settle in Texas,
and the American settlers
soon outnumbered
the Tejanos
2. What was the Lone
Star Republic?
The Lone Star Republic
was the new nation
that the Texans created
after rebelling against
the Mexican government.
Reading Check: What was
Polk’s reason for declaring
war on Mexico?
Vocabulary: reluctant
Reading Skill: After
Congress voted to annex
Texas in 1845, what step
led the United States
closer to war with Mexico
Americans were killed in a
border clash.
unwilling; marked by
mental
hesitation or reservations
Polk ordered U.S. troops
into the contested
borderlands in Texas.
1. Scene of a 12-day long battle
between Mexicans and Texans –
2. First President of the Republic of
Texas –
3. Led American troops to occupy
the Texas-Mexico border –
4. Led a group of emigrants to settle
farmland east of San Antonio –
• Alamo (E)
• Sam Houston (F)
• Zachary Taylor (H)
• Stephen F. Austin (A)
5. Independent control over one’s
affairs –
• autonomy (C)
6. American general who captured
Veracruz and Mexico City –
• Winfield Scott (I)
7. C – Texas
8. B – Led an Attack on the Alamo
9. A – Democrats
10. C - Chapultepec
1. Why was the Wilmot
Proviso controversial?
2. How did California
contribute to the slavery
debate?
The Wilmot Proviso would
have prohibited
slavery in the new
territories.
California’s application for
statehood
threatened to tip the
balance in favor of free
states.
Reading Check – What was the
name for people who moved
west during the California Gold
Rush
Vocabulary – Comprised
Reading Skill – What
unforeseen consequences
occurred during the
settlement of California?
• Forty-niners
• Included; made up
• During the rapid settlement of California,
Native Americans were killed and terrorized
by the thousands. Also, many Mexican
Americans lost their land and their rights.
1. Mass migration of
people seeking their
fortunes
D - California
Gold Rush
2. Added 1.2 million
square miles of territory
to the United States
A – Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo
3. Using pans and shovels
to harvest gold flecks
from sand near rivers and
streams
E – Placer
Mining
4. Banned slavery in any
lands won from Mexico
C – Wilmot
Proviso
5. Transferred ownership
of land in southern
Arizona from Mexico to
the United States
B – Gadsen
Purchase
6.
B – New Mexico and California
7.
C – One third
8.
B - It divided Congress
9.
A – China
10
B – California’s application for statehood