Expanding West Vocabulary Quiz

American merchant who created the American Fur Company.

• John Jacob Astor
• Brigham Young
• John Sutter
• James K Polk

Western fur traders and trappers were known as

• mountain men
• Mormons

• Californios
• forty-niners

The 2000-mile-long trail that settlers followed from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette Valley in the Pacific Northwest.

• Oregon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail
• Mormon Trail
• I-15

An important trail used mainly by traders that stretched from Independence, Missouri to New Mexico.

• Santa Fe Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Oregon Trail
• Antelope Drive

The members of Joseph Smith's church who settled in what is now Utah were known as

• vaqueros
• Mormons

• mountain men
• Catholics

He became head of the Mormon Church after the death of Joseph Smith and led his followers to what is now Utah.

• John Jacob Astor
• Jim Beckwourth
• Brigham Young
• Stephen F Austin

This Mexican priest led a failed rebellion in an attempt to overthrow Spanish rule in Mexico.

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
• Stephen F Austin
• Lorenzo de Zavala
• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Agents hired by the Mexican government to bring settlers to Texas.

• empresarios
• Mormons
• vaqueros
• placer miners

This agent started the first successful Texas colony on the lower Colorado River. Its first 300 family became known as the Old Three Hundred.

• James K Polk
• Stephen F Austin
• John Sutter
• Brigham Young

The Mexican general who led the Mexican army during the Texas Revolution

• Stephen F Austin
• Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
• James K Polk