Chapter 11 Westward Expansion

Miners who used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets from loose rock or gravel.

• forty-niners
• prospect
• placer miners

Members of a religious group, formally known as the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that moved wast during the 1830s and 1840s

• Mountain Men
• Mormons
• Empresarios

US President elected in 1844,whose administration annexed both Texas and Oregon

• Stephen Austin
• Santa Anna
• James K Polk

In all your years of education to 8th grade, what has been your favorite project? Describe the project and tell me why it was your favorite!

The population of California went down during the Gold rush of 1849

• True
• False

Owner of the American Fur Company who founded the first important settlement in Oregon Country in 1811.

• John Jacob Astor
• Brigham Young
• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Empresario who established the first American colony in Texas. The state capital is named after him.

• Stephen Austin
• Santa Anna
• James K Polk

John Sutter was the Swiss immigrant who started the first Angelo-Californian colony.

• True
• False

Fur Traders and trappers who traveled to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s

• Mountain Men
• Mormons
• Empresarios

A group of western travelers who were trapped crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847. They resorted to Cannibalism to survive the terrible winter

• Vaqueros
• Californios
• Donner Party