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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny Sections 1 & 2

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  • Why do you think that most Texans favored annexation by the United States, even after Texas won independence from Mexico?
    Texans did not have an established economy. They also realized that they were still vulnerable to additional Mexican attacks.
  • What is manifest destiny?
    the idea that the United States had the right and the obligation to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean
  • What is a margin?
    the amount by which something is won or lost
  • Where did both the Santa Fe Trail and Oregon Trail begin?
    Independence, Missouri
  • What increased the pioneers' fear of Native American attacks?
    refusal of Native Americans to trade with pioneers
    fiction about the West that exaggerated such accounts
    experiences recorded by mountainmen and Mormon leaders
    distinctive customs of Native Americans on the trail
  • What two leading motivations caused pioneers to move west?
    Two leading motivations that caused pioneers to move west were economic opportunities and religious freedom.
  • What do you call a settler moving to a new and unfamiliar land?
    A pioneer
  • What is the high point in the Rocky Mountains that divides the watersheds of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans called?
    The Continental Divide
  • What is a siege?
    a military tactic in which troops surround a city with soldiers in an attempt to take control of it
  • How did Mexico differ from Spain in its policy toward Tejas?
    Mexico welcomed trade with Americans.
  • Define annex.
    to add
  • What are presidios?
    a military post or settlement
  • What were wagon trains?
    a large group of covered wagons that traveled together across the North American continent as American pioneers moved westward
  • Who led an expedition to discover the headwaters of the Arkansas River?
    Zebulon Pike
  • Who were mountain men?
    the American fur trappers and explorers who began to explore and move west
  • By 1860, about how many people had settled in Oregon?
    400,000
    300,000
    52,000
    10,000
  • Why was independent Texas known as the Lone Star Republic?
    Its flag had a single star on it.
  • What do we call a mass departure?
    an exodus
  • What led to the Texas War for Independence?
    Mexican rejection of Texas statehood within Mexico
  • Why do you think life on the frontier wagon trains changed conventional gender roles?
    Women did more than cook and clean. They also worked alongside men to tend to livestock, gather supplies, make repairs, and do whatever needed to be done.
  • Which Native American people did pioneers encounter as they traveled through the Great Plains?
    Nez Perce
    Cherokee
    Zuni
    Lakota
  • What is indivdualism?
    self-reliant independence
  • What did President James K. Polk firmly support?
    manifest destiny
  • What does rendezvous mean?
    a temporary market where trappers met to trade and socialize
  • Briefly explain President Polk’s policy toward the Oregon Territory.
    Polk believed that the United States should take complete control of the territory up to the latitude of 54° 40'.
  • Who was the victor at the Battle of San Jacinto?
    Sam Houston
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