American History - Chapter 13 Flashcards

4350559649	John Charles Fremont	know for the Bear Flag Revolution	0
4350560302	James W. Marshall	known for the California Gold Rush	1
4350562964	Jedediah Smith	mountain man	2
4350564092	Brigham Young	Mormon leader	3
4350564801	Alamo	remembrance of this stirred Sam Houston and his army to victory	4
4350567601	Battle of San Jacinto	resulted in the capture of Santa Anna	5
4350570758	Gadsden Purchase	completed the acquisition of territory for the 48 contiguous United States	6
4350573045	Mexican Cession	the area Mexico gave up at the end of the Mexican War	7
4350574207	Mexican War	carried out by "Old Rough and Ready" and "Old Fuss and Feathers"; served as a "training ground" for the Civil War to come	8
4350575830	popular soveriengty	principle of allowing people in the territories to decide whether they wished to allow slavery	9
4350577349	California	major territory brought into American hands by the Bear Flag Revolution	10
4350579792	Zachary Taylor	American general who gained great popularity and success during the Mexican War	11
4350582176	Oregon Territory	claimed by U.S. and Britain before 1846; boundary was set at the 49th parallel	12
4350584433	Mormons	group that was responsible for settling much of the Great Basin area of the West; had trouble	13
4350585856	Santa Anna	Mexican president who opposed Texan independence	14
4350589276	Rio Grande	believed to be the border between Texas and Mexico at the outbreak of the Mexican War	15
4350593197	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	the agreement that ended the Mexican War	16
4350593198	Doughfaces	the name given to Norther Democrats who were willing to compromise on the political problems of the 1850's; Franklin Pierce was known as one	17
4350599105	Millard Fillmore	succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died while in office	18
4350600804	Sutter's Fort	related to start of the California Gold Rush	19
4350602719	Manifest Destiny	associated with President James K. Polk	20
4350605664	Bueno Vista	Zachary Taylor became the hero of this as the last event in the Mexico/Texas conflict	21
4350608205	reasons for moving West	riches, farmland, missionary work	22
4350609688	Compromise of 1850	allowed popular sovereignty, introduced a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, and outlawed the slave trade in the District of Columbia; Stephen Douglas helped to pass this aggreement	23
4350615943	Oregon Trail	trail was used more by traders than settlers moving to new homes	24
4350618647	Texas	an independent country before annexed to the United States; those against slavery protested the admittance of Texas to the union because they feared it would be divided into multiple slave states	25
4350619649	Wilmot Proviso	would have banned slavery in any territory taken from Mexico	26
4350621534	Marcus Whitman	missionary in the West	27
4350624998	Methodist Missionaries	first to seek permanent homes in Oregon	28
4350625968	Spanish missions	these were set up along the coast of California before the land fell into American hands	29
4350628037	trappers & traders	first white men to arrive in a western area	30
4350736985	American settlers in Texas	helped Texas to prosper but did not blend into Spanish population as Mexico has hoped	31
4350748474	James Polk	won the election of 1844 by promising "All of Oregon, All of Texas" to the American people	32