Module 12 Review

Match the following

• belief that the US should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean

• manifest destiny

• agents who were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s

• empresarios

• Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and hroses

• Vaquero

• Spanish mission in San Antonio, TX, that was the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution

• Alamo

• fully revealed without vagueness

• explicit

Match the following

• a person who mines for gold by using pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock

• Californios

• gold-seekers who moved to California during the gold rush

• element

• a basic part of an individual's surroundings

• Placer miners

• to search for gold

• prospect

• Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s

• forty-niners

Match the following

• fought in the Texas Revolution and seized the Alamo

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• 11th president of the US, settled Oregon boundary with Great Britain

• John Sutter

• American pioneer who built a trading post on the California frontier

• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

• led a rebellion of impoverished Indians and mestizos against Spain

• Stephen F. Austin

• imprisoned for urging Texas statehood

• James K. Polk

Settlements in the northern parts of Spanish America were organized into three types. Match the settlement type with the correct description.   

• a fort housing soldiers who defended priests

• presidio

• a town housing Spanish citizens

• pueblo

• a religious settlement housing a small number of priests

• mission

Why did the Texans declare independence in 1836?

• The Mexican army attacked the Texan army at the Rio Grande.
• Santa Anna placed additional taxes on Tejanos and Anglo-Americans in Texas.
• The Mexican army attempted to take a cannon from Texans in Gonzales.
• Santa Anna attempted to enforce Mexican authority over Texas and its residents.

Which of the following battles were Texan victories?

• Gonzales
• the Alamo
• Goliad
• San Jacinto

Which of these actions helped the United States fulfill the ideal of manifest destiny? Choose the two correct answers.

• claiming land in the Oregon Country up to 54°40’N latitude
• giving up claims of Spanish lands west of the Nueces River
• gaining Mexican territory following the Mexican-American War
• acquiring sole ownership of the Oregon Country south of 49°N latitude
• calling for the annexation of Mexican territory south of the Rio Grande following the Mexican-American War

Put the following American land acquisitions in chronological order. 

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

• Gadsden Purchase

Which of these were contributions of Mexican Americans following the Mexican-American War?

• teaching mining and ranching techniques
• teaching corn and cotton planting techniques
• developing irrigation techniques in the Southwest
• developing dry farming techniques in the Southwest

What types of economic opportunities did many women have during the California gold rush?

• They established mining camps and sold individual land plots to groups of miners.
• They made money doing laundry and cooking meals for miners.
• They owned the majority of mining companies and employed large numbers of miners.
• They made money prospecting and surveying possible new sources of minerals.