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| What is "Manifest Destiny"? | the idea that God had given the continent to Americans and wanted them to settle western land |
| What new inventions made farming possible in rough terrain? | iron-bladed plow & mechanical reaper-both required less work to plant and harvest crops |
| What was the most popular trail used by overlanders? | Oregan Trail |
| What wagon train ended in tragedy? | Donner Party |
| Why was the Donner Party infamous? | in 1846 a group of 87 overlanders were trapped by winter snows high in the Sierra Nevada mountains-41 died of starvation and in order to survive they resorted to cannibalism(humans eating humans) |
| Why does Texas go to war with Mexico even though Mexico offered cheap, tax-free land to American settlers? | Texans did not accept Mexican customs/culture, Texans did not learn Spanish, Texans did not see Mexico as their home country, & Texans were not willing to learn about the Spanish Catholic Church |
| Why were new farming inventions needed? | mechanical reaper in 1834 which allowed for the harvest of more grain with far less effort(Cyrus McCormick) & sharp-edged steel blades that cut cleanly through the sod reducing by half the labor needed to prepare an acre for farming(John Deere) |
| What was the significance of the Alamo? | Spanish Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas that was the site of a battle in 1836 in which Santa Anna's army(Mexico) stormed it and the Texans held them off for two weeks buying time for Houston to organize the army of the new Texan government & it also became a morale booster |
| What was outlined in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? | ended war with Mexico, Mexico ceded 500,000 square miles to US(California, Utah, Nevada & parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming), accepted Rio Grande River as southern border of Texas, US paid Mexico $15 million, and US took on $3.25 million in Mexican debt owed to American citizens |
