Chapter 13 Test Review

In 1818, the United States and Great Britain agreed to

• control Oregon Country together

• leave Oregon Country

• give Oregon Country to Spain

• let the people in Oregon Country decide who would rule

Adventurous people who lived off the land in the Oregon Country.

• Mission Men

• Mountain Men

• Missionaries

• Presidents

The first white Americans to make permanent homes in Oregon Country were

• forty-niners

• Lewis and Clark

• missionaries

• fur trappers

The idea that expansion would open new opportunities for the United States economy.

• Gold Rush

• forty-niners

• New Mexico Territory

• Manifest Destiny

French word meaning "get-together"

• Rendezvous

• Au Revoir

• Merci Beaucoup

• S'il vous plait

Mexico encouraged Americans to settle in Texas by

• building missions

• banning slavery

• giving them land

• giving them independence

A strategy in which enemy forces try to capture a fort or city by surrounding and bombarding it.

• dictator

• siege

• Alamo

• annex

Which of the following events happened immediately after Texans declared independence from Mexico in 1836?

• The United States annexed Texas

• Texans fought the Mexican army

• Stephen Austin led American settlers into Texas

• Mexico enforced old laws that American settlers had to obey

To take control of a territory or country

• dictator

• siege

• Alamo

• annex

In the Spanish missions in California, Native Americans

• tended sheep and cattle and grew crops

• served the Spanish as soldiers

• grew in number

• worked in gold mines