Manifest Destiny FAC

Which statement best characterizes interactions between Native Americans and pioneers traveling west in the 1800s?

• Most encounters were hostile.

• Most encounters were friendly.

• Violent attacks were common.

• The two groups avoided contact.

What was one reason that Texans wanted independence from Mexico?

• Mexico wanted Texas to become a Mexican state.

• Mexico had banned American settlement in Texas.

• Mexico promoted slavery.

• Mexico charged settlers high fees for land.

Who were the forty-niners?

• settlers who received 49 acres of land in California in the 1800s

• gold-seekers who came to California in 1849

• Catholic priests who built 49 missions in California in the 1800s

• leaders who drafted a constitution for California in 1849

What is the concept of manifest destiny?

• Mexico should allow slavery to exist in Texas.

• The Missouri Compromise should be repealed.

• America should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

• The British should turn over Oregon to the United States.

How did many women benefit from settling in boomtowns?

• They faced fewer challenges and less hard labor.

• They handled domestic duties for their households.

• Mexican land grants made it easy for women to own land.

• Few laws prohibited women from owning property or businesses.

What increased the pioneers' fear of Native American attacks?

• refusal of Native Americans to trade with pioneers

• distinctive customs of Native Americans on the trail

• fiction about the West that exaggerated such accounts

• experiences recorded by mountainmen and Mormon leaders

Who were most of fortune-seekers during the gold rush?

• rancheros

• Californios

• single-men

• immigrants

What did some New Englanders claim about the Mexican-American War?

• It was a conflict important only to the South.

• It was unnecessary and too expensive.

• It was a scheme to expand slavery.

• It was secretly backed by Spain.

Why did Spain prohibit the Tejanos from trading with the United States?

• Spain wanted slavery in Tejas to end.

• Spain did not like effects of the Monroe Doctrine.

• Spain worried about U.S. influence on the Tejanos.

• Spain feared any Native American–United States alliance.

During the 1840s some pro-slavery southerners opposed annexation of new western territory because they 

• worried that the new territories might ban slavery.

• were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans.

• supported an isolationist foreign policy.

• were worried the U.S. would declare war on Mexico.