Unit 7 Review

Best describe Manifest Destiny, a belief that led many people to move west?

• The belief that it was U.S mission to expand American ideals and values.

• The belief that the U.S should grow to become a world power once gold was discovered.

• The belief that Native Americas had ruined the land in the west.

• The belief that the land in the West originally belonged to the U.S citizens.

In exchange for inexpensive land, settlers in Texas were required by the Mexican government to-

• Learn Spanish

• Convert to Cathicism

• Become a Mexican citizen

• All the above

Thousands of Native Americans died while making their way to Indian Territory while on this route:

• Trail of Tears

• Oregon Trail

• Manifest Destiny

• Ship route

Texas won its independence from _________.

• Canada

• Britain

• Mexico

• Spain

As the US expanded Westward, it acquired land through all the following means EXCEPT-

• by purchasing land from Native Americans

• by purchasing land from other countries

• by fighting wars with Native Americans that held lands

• by fighting wars with other countries

Conflicts between Native Americans and settlers in the 1800s, the US government decided to-

• remove Native Americans from their native land

• remove settlers from towns and maintain peaceful relations

• allow settlers to to capture any Native Americans found on their land

• capture and imprison any Native Americans accused of crimes

From 1848 to 1850, people moved across the country to California becoming the largest migration in the U.S. history. What resource were they seeking?

• Oil wells

• Factory work

• Gold deposits

• Good farmland

California Gold Rush brought in-

• Different (diverse) people looking for gold.

• not enough land to mine gold.

• only white males looking for gold.

• Chinese immigrants used as workers.

The Mexican government would award land grants to someone known as this, who'd then recruit settlers to come to Texas:

• Sam Houston

• Empresario

• Andrew Jackson

• Santa Ana

This city was founded by Mormon settlers-

• San Francisco

• Austin

• Salt Lake City

• San Antonio