6th grade History Q20 L92

Who was the dictator that took control of Mexico and led an army against the Texans?

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Saddam Hussein

• General Santa Anna

Who was the frontiersman from Tennessee who helped Texans fight for independence?

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• James Monroe

• Davy Crockett

Who was the President of the United States during the Mexican War?

• President James K. Polk

• President James Monroe

• President George Washington

• President Barack Obama

Who led the Texans to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto?

• Pancho

• General Sam Houston

• General Custard

• James Marshall

Texas claimed ____ as her western boundary.

• Rio Verde

• Rio Chiquito

• Rio Store

• Rio Grande

The miners who moved west during the California Gold Rush became known as the "_______".

• Kate Rice

• forty-niners

• Herbert Hoover

• George Hearst

The ______ was the strip of land purchased from Mexico by the United States.

• Treaty of Mexico

• Alaskan Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

Who was the ranch hand that discovered gold on a ranch in California?

• Osama Bin Laden

• John Sutton

• Davy Crokett

• James Marshall

The Oregon Trail stretching 2,000 miles was used to transport pioneers and supplies westward and began in ______.

• Freedomville, California

• Richmond, Virginia

• Independence, Missouri

• Penn State, Ohio

Choose the famous missionaries who was among the first to travel to Oregon.

• Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

• The Hudson brothers

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Nate and Rachel Saint