Mr. Walls-U.S. History Unit 4

The belief that Americans had the right and duty to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean was called what?

• Manifest Destiny
• Emigrants
• Tejano
• Protective Tariff

Mexican Dictator.

• Sam Houston
• Santa Anna
• Narcissa Whitman
• Buena Vista

What was the battle that the Texans won and captured General Santa Anna?

• The Alamo
• The Battle of San Antonio
• The Battle of Trenton
• The Battle of San Jacinto

The Texans took positions in this old Spanish mission?

• Fort Buena Vista
• Tejanos
• Alamo
• Santa Fe

People of Mexican descent born in Texas

• Mormons
• Galiad
• Siege
• Tejanos

The president of the Lone Star Republic

• Jerry Jones
• Andrew Jackson
• Santa Anna
• Sam Houston

A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another

• tejanos
• sectionalism
• emigrant
• nomad

Self-appointed law enforcers, may deal out punishments without any legal right to do so

• forty-niners
• republicans
• leaders
• vigilantes

Because James K. Polk favored expansion in the United States he won the presidential election in 1844.  What was the democrats campaign cry that helped win the election?

• "Victory or Death!"
• "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!"
• "Remember the Alamo!"
• "Fifty-four forty or fight!"

The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended which war in 1848?

• The Revolutionary War
• The French and Indian War
• The War of 1812
• The Mexican War