According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Californios and Mexicans in the ceded territories
could choose to become American citizens or retain Mexican citizenship
Mexico abolished slavery in
1829
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According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Californios and Mexicans in the
ceded territories - ANSWER- could choose to become American citizens or retain
Mexican citizenship
Mexico abolished slavery in - ANSWER- 1829
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, shall be
free to continue where they now reside, or to remove, at any time, to the Mexican
republic . . . In said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans
shall be inviolably respected." - ANSWER- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The CA Gold Rush - ANSWER- - stimulated the construction of the first
transcontinental railroad
- helped finance the Union during the Civil War
- caused a population boom in CA
In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), Chief Justice John Marshall recognized
Indians as - ANSWER- domestic dependent nations
By the 1830s, the Cherokee had - ANSWER- - become successful farmers, many
with slaves
- established schools
- a written constitution modeled on that of the U.S.
, The U.S.-Mexican War began when - ANSWER- American and Mexican forces
clashed over disputed border territory in southern Texas between the Nueces and
Rio Grande rivers.
The term Gold Mountain refers to - ANSWER- the Chinese term for CA
Why did President Polk order General Zachary Taylor across the Nueces to the
banks of the Rio Grande in 1846? - ANSWER- to provoke a Mexican attack,
allowing him to launch a full war against Mexico
Which of the following ideas was Manifest Destiny NOT based on? - ANSWER-
Conquest of new territory would prove American military superiority.
When did Mexico concede defeat in the Mexican-American War? - ANSWER-
when General Winfield Scott captured Mexico City in September 1847
Which of the following was NOT a United States territorial acquisition in the
1840s? - ANSWER- the area between the Rockies and the Missouri River
What city experienced explosive growth as a result of the gold rush in California?
- ANSWER- San Francisco
Chief John Ross was - ANSWER- assimilated leader of the Cherokee, forced to
walk "trail of tears"
By the middle of the 1830s, the number of American immigrants into Texas -
ANSWER- outnumbered the Mexican Tejano population there by ten times.
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
"John Marshall has made his decision [in the Worcester v. Georgia case], now let
him enforce it." - ANSWER- Andrew Jackson (1832)
Which of the following was NOT one of the three harbors on the Pacific that
President Polk wished to claim from Britain and Mexico? - ANSWER- Santa Cruz
Indian guide who served and Lewis and Clark's translator and adviser: -
ANSWER- Sacagawea
In the early 1830s the Mexican Congress turned vast landholdings in the Mexican
borderlands over to - ANSWER- rancheros
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