Modified Unit 7 level 2 quiz review

People of Mexican heritage who live in Texas ________.

• Tejanos
• Mountain men

• persecution

• forty-niners

Person who went to California to find gold in 1849.

• Tejanos
• Mountain men

• persecution

• forty-niners

Trappers and explorers who opened up the western pioneer trails

• Tejanos
• Mountain men

• persecution

• forty-niners

Mistreatment because of religious beliefs

• Tejanos
• Mountain men

• persecution

• forty-niners

Why did the Mormons move west?

• To mine gold

• To escape persecution

• To fight for Texas’s independence

During the Texas Revolution, where did the Mexican Army defeat the Texians, killing all 180 Texian defenders?

• The Alamo

• The San Jacinto River

• The Rio Grande

What was President James K. Polk’s position on westward expansion?

• The U.S. should respect Mexico’s territory

• The U.S. should respect Indigenous People

• The U.S. should expand all the way to the Pacific coast

Why did the U.S. go to war with Mexico?

• Tensions over Texas’s border and Texas annexation.

• Because of slavery

What led to California’s speedy road to statehood in the U.S.?

• The 1849 Gold Rush

• The Battle of the Alamo

What best describes the journey west to California and Oregon?

• The trip could be made safely and quickly.

• Children were rarely brought along.

• A wagon and oxen were essential