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Chapter 11 Matias Montenegro
Question: Why did most americans start to move west?
Answer: To search for beavers and their fur, since they had killed most ofnthem in the east, and also look for a better life.
Question: What were dur traders and trappers called?
Answer: Mountain Men
Question: How long was the Oregon Trail?
Answer: 2,000 miles long
Question: Name another trail that was used to travel west
Answer: The Santa Fe trail
Question: Who started the mormon religion?
Answer: Joseph Smith
Question: Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?
Answer: A mexican priest
Question: What did Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla do?
Answer: He led a rebellion of about 80,000 poor indians and mestizos
Question: Who was Stephen F. Austin?
Answer: A young texan agent
Question: Who won the battle lf the Alamo?
Answer: The mexicams
Question: Who won the battle of san jacinto?
Answer: The Texans
Question: What is the manifest destiny?
Answer: An obvious fate to settle land all the way to the pacific in order to spread democracy
Question: Who was James K. Polk?
Answer: The former Tennessee governor
Question: What year did congress aprove the annexation of texas?
Answer: 1845
Question: What did Vaqueros do?
Answer: They managed large herds of cattle and sheep
Question: Who were the "californios"?
Answer: The early settlers of California
Question: Who was John Sutter?
Answer: A swiss immigrant that granted permission to start a colony
Question: What was the donner party?
Answer: A group of western travelers who went to california but were stranded in the sierra nevada
Question: What were the gold seekers called?
Answer: 49ers
Question: What was it called to search for gold?
Answer: To prospect for gold
Question: What did placed miners use to wash the gold?
Answer: Pans or other devices?
Question: About hw many immigrants went to california in one year?
Answer: 20,000
Question: Name places in California that show Hispanic heritage
Answer: San francisco, San Antonio and Santa Barbara
Question: What treaty did tbe U.S and the Mexico sign in February 1848?
Answer: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Question: How much did the U.S pay Mexico nder the Gadson Purchase?
Answer: 10 million dollars
Question: What was the Bear Flag Revolt?
Answer: When the Americans declard California an independent nation