7th Grade Chapter 11 Test- Expanding West

The belief in the idea that Americans should settle lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Contract Theory

• Common Sense Movement

• Progressive Movement

Early travelers who went to California but were stranded in the Sierra Nevadas during winter.

• Donner Party

• Manifest Destiny

• Placer Miners

• Vaqueros

Used pans or other devices to wash or fold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.

• placer miner

• Californios

• Vaqueros

• Donner Party

Founded America's largest fur business

• John Sutter

• James K. Polk

• John Jacob Astor

• Brigham Young

Democratic President who was leader during the Mexican-American War.

• Brigham Young

• James K. Polk

• John Sutter

• John Jacob Astor

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

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