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U.S. HISTORY REVIEW. CHAPTERS 9 AND 10. QUESTION. WHAT IS MEANT BY MANIFEST DESTINY?. ANSWER. MANIFEST DESTINY IS THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA SHOULD CONTROL THE LAND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. QUESTION. WHO COINED THE PHRASE “MANIFEST DESTINY”?. ANSWER.
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U.S. HISTORY REVIEW • CHAPTERS 9 AND 10
QUESTION • WHAT IS MEANT BY MANIFEST DESTINY?
ANSWER • MANIFEST DESTINY IS THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA SHOULD CONTROL THE LAND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
QUESTION • WHO COINED THE PHRASE “MANIFEST DESTINY”?
ANSWER • JOHN O”SULLIVAN, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK POST
QUESTION • WHAT NORTHERN PROVINCE OF MEXICO FOUGHTT AND WON ITS INDEPENDENCE. IT BECAME THE LONE STAR REPUBLIC?
ANSWER • TEXAS
QUESTION • WHO IN 1832, SEIZED CONTROL OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT?
ANSWER • GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ de SANTA ANNA
QUESTION • WHAT WERE THE CONDITIONS STEPHEN AUSTIN PROMISED THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WOULD FOLLOW IN ORDER TO SETTLE IN TEXAS?
ANSWER • STEPHEN AUSTIN PROMISED THE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES THAT HIS FOLLOWERS WOULD: • LEARN TP SPEAK SPANISH • OBSERVE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION • OBEY MEXICAN LAWS • BECOME MEXICAN CITIZENS
QUESTION • WHO WAS ELECTED FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS?
ANSWER • THAT WOULD BE SAM HOUSTON
QUESTION WHAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS FOR THE SOUTHERNERS SUPPORT FOR THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS?
ANSWER • ANNEXATION OF TEXAS WOULD PROVIDE ANOTHER TERRITORY WHERE SLAVERY WAS ESTABLISHED
QUESTION • WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THE SLOGAN “REMEMBER THE ALAMO”?
ANSWER “REMEMBER THE ALAMO” IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT SYMBOLIZES THE MANY TEXANS WHO DIED SEEKING INDEPENDENCE
QUESTION • WHAT WERE THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE-HIDALGO?
ANSWER • IN THE TERMS OF THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE-HIDALGO, • MEXICO ACCEPTED THE RIO GRANDE AS THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY • MEXICO GAVE UP CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO • THE U.S. PAID MEXICO $15 MILLION
QUESTION • WHAT FIGHT IS OFTEN CALLED THE “LEXINGTON OF TEXAS”?
ANSWER • THAT WOULD BE THE ONE THAT WAS FOUGHT IN THE TOWN OF GONZALES
QUESTION • WHAT TWO WELL KNOWN AMERICAN HEROES LOST THEIR LIVES AT THE ALAMO?
ANSWER • JIM BOWIE AND DAVEY CROCKETT
QUESTION • AGAINST WHAT COUNTRY DID TEXAS REVOLT?
ANSWER • MEXICO
QUESTION • DURING THE TEXAS WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, A SMALL TEXAS ARMY WAS DEFEATED AND SLAUGHTERED AT THIS CHURCH MISSION?
QUESTION • THE ALAMO
QUESTION • WHO WAS THE FRANCISCAN PRIEST THAT SET UP A STRING OF MISSIONS IN CALIFORNIA?
ANSWER • HIS NAME: FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA
QUESTION • WHO WAS FOUNDER OF THE MORMON RELIGION?
ANSWER • JOSEPH SMITH
QUESTION • WHAT LEADER LED THE MORMONS TO SALT LAKE CITY TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION?
ANSWER • BRIGHAM YOUNG
QUESTION • WHY WAS THE WILMOT PROVISO CONTROVERSIAL?
ANSWER • IF THE WILMOT PROVISO HAD BECOME LAW, IT WOULD HAVE PROHIBITED SLAVERY IN ANY LANDS TAKEN FROM MEXICO
QUESTION • WHAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT WAS A BELIEVER IN MANIFEST DESTINY AND A SUPPORTER OF TEXAS ANNEXATION?
ANSWER • THE PRESIDENT WITH A MISSION: JAMES K. POLK
QUESTION • HOW DID CALIFORNIA CONTRIBUTE TO THE SLAVERY DEBATE?
ANSWER • WHEN CALIFORNIA APPLIED FOR STATEHOOD, THE NUMBER OF SLAVE AND FREE STATES WERE EQUAL. IF CALIFORNIA BECAME FREE STATE, IT TIP THE BALANCE.
QUESTION • THE PRESENT DAY BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE U.S. AND MEXICO INCLUDES WHAT PARALLEL?
ANSWER • THE BOUNDARY INCLUDES THE 49TH PARALLEL
QUESTION WHAT WERE THE FORTUNE HUNTERS WHO TRAVELED BY LAND AND SEA TO CALIFORNIA KNOWN AS?
ANSWER • THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE FORTY-NINERS
QUESTION • WHAT WERE THE FORTY-NINERS SEARCHING FOR?
ANSWER • GOLD, OF COURSE
QUESTION • WHAT SMALL STRIP OF LAND IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO WAS PURCHASED FROM MEXICO FOR &10 MILLION FOR PURPOSE OF BUILDING A RAILROAD ROUTE?
ANSWER • THE GADSDEN PURCHASE, ALTHOUGH MANY AMERICANS FELT THE LARGE SUM OF MONEY FOR THIS TERRITORY WAS “CONSCIENCE” $.