5.2 Westward Expansion

What caused Texans to demand their independence from Mexico in 1835? 

• The Mexican government allowed slavery but Americans wanted slavery abolished 
• They were upset with the unfair taxes Mexico forced them to pay
• Texans wanted self-government and refused to obey Mexican laws
• A gold rush led over 100,000 Americans to rush to Texas in 1849

Which of the following is true about Texas? 

• The majority to Texans were either Mormon or Catholic
• The request by Texans to become a state led to the Compromise of 1850
• Texas entered the United States as a free state
• Texas was an independent nation before it became a U.S. state

What caused the Mexican-American War in 1846? A )  B)  C)  D ) 

• The United States helped the citizens of Texas get their independence from Mexico.
• Mexico and USA could not agree on the borders of Texas after it was annexed by the U.S.
• Mexicans were offended by an American attempt to annex California, Oregon, and Florida.
• Americans were angry because Mexico did not stop impressing U.S. merchants.

According to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, the United States gained 

• the territories between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
• Texas as a new U.S. state 
• territories in the Southwest, including California and New Mexico
• $15 million from Mexico

Which event was most responsible for creating a large and diverse population in California? 

• the Treaty of Fort Laramie
• the invention of the steel plow 
• the Gold Rush
• the war with Mexico

Why did the United States wait until 1846 to annex Texas, rather than immediately making it a state in 1836? 

• the mission system meant that there would be too many Catholics
• conflict over the balance of free and slave states
• he policy of President James K. Polk prevented the U.S. from taking it
•  its price was too high

What did the Wilmot Proviso call for?  

• the abolition of slavery in territories won from Mexico
• the annexation of Cuba and Mexico as new slave states
• a stricter fugitive slave law
• popular sovereignty in the territories

 Which compromise resulted in the admission of California to the Union as a free state?

• the Great Compromise
• the Compromise of 1850
• the Missouri Compromise
• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who was known as the "Manifest Destiny" president?

• James K. Polk
• James Monroe
• Sam Houston
• Abraham Lincoln

Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1844, which territory was added as a free state to make northerners happy?

• Utah
• New Mexico
• California
• Oregon