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CHAPTER 16. Expanding West. Section 1: The Spanish West and Southwest Section 2: Texas Gains Independence Section 3: The Lone Star Republic Section 4: Oregon and the Far West Section 5: California and the Southwest. SECTION 1. The Spanish West and Southwest. Question:
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CHAPTER 16 Expanding West Section 1: The Spanish West and Southwest Section 2: Texas Gains Independence Section 3:The Lone Star Republic Section 4:Oregon and the Far West Section 5: California and the Southwest
SECTION 1 The Spanish West and Southwest Question: How was society structured in Spanish California, New Mexico, and Texas?
SECTION 1 Spanish California New Mexico Texas The Spanish West and Southwest mission system, each mission one day apart from the next small villages scattered throughout the region mission system, scat-tered about settlement held back by American Indian defense against it
SECTION 2 Texas Gains Independence Question: What were the important events surrounding the Texas Revolution?
SECTION 2 October 1835 March 1836 April 1836 Texas Gains Independence The Mexican army wins victories at the Alamo and at the Battle of Goliad. The Texas army defeats the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto. Texans defeat Mexican soldiers at Gonzales. Texas declares itself a republic.
SECTION 3 The Lone Star Republic Question: What were the various challenges and conditions that American Indians, immigrants, and Tejanos faced in the republic of Texas?
SECTION 3 American Indians Immigrants Tejanos The Lone Star Republic • land was taken • threatened by military Republic of Texas • offered land grants • allowed to keep slaves • land was taken • property was taken • lost political power
SECTION 4 Oregon and the Far West Question: What were reasons that the first settlers traveled to the Rockies and farther west, and that Americans later settled the Oregon Country?
SECTION 4 Oregon and the Far West First Settlers Both Later Settlers fur to trade seek fortune opportunity spread Christianity, farm, mine, or ranch
SECTION 5 California and the Southwest Question: What were reasons that people traveled to California in the early 1800s?
SECTION 5 California and the Southwest Why they went to California to settle, to trade with Mexican merchants, to paint
CHAPTER 16 Chapter Wrap-Up 1. Describe the series of events that led Texans to declare their independence from Mexico. 2. How did German immigrants affect the Republic of Texas? 3. How was the geography of the Pacific Northwest different from that of the Southwest, and why do you think people settled in each region?