Define Manifest Destiny in your own words.
Obvious fate
Why was the Mississippi River important?
So the farmers could get their crops to the market.
Why was the port of New Orleans important?
So the framers could load their crops on ships to go to Europe or the East Coast.
Borders of the Louisiana Territory:
Rocky Mountains, to the Mississippi River and Canada to Texas.
3 countries have claimed the Louisiana Territory, before America. Who were they?
1st- Indians, 2nd- the French, 3rd Spain, then French again.
Why did Napoleon want to settle the Louisiana Territory with framers?
So they would raise food for the slaves who worked on France's sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
Why were American farmers alarmed about Napoleon sending French farmers to the Louisiana Territory?
If Napoleon closed the port to American goods, farmers would have no way to sell their crops to the market.
Who was the president during the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was sent to France to talk to Napoleon about the Louisiana purchase?
James Monroe
How much did America want to buy the Port of New Orleans for?
$7.5 million
Why did Napoleon decide he didn't need New Orleans or the Louisiana Territory anymore?
There had been a revolt in the French Caribbean. Former slaves defeated the French troops who wanted the colony back. So Napoleon didn't need to feed anybody in the Caribbean anymore.
Date and price of the Louisiana Purchase:
April 30, 1803 for $15 million.
Who was Florida first colonized by?
Spain
In the 1800's, what 4 groups were living in Florida?
Seminole Indians, Spanish Colonists, English traders, Runaway slaves.
What year and how many troops did Jackson take with him to Florida?
In the year 1818 and 1,700 troops.
Who was the Secretary of State who convinced the president to send a mean letter to Spain?
John Quincy Adams
Spain eventually gave up Florida. What did America pay and why?
$5 million in settlers' claim against Spain and agreed to Spain's claim that Spain owned Texas.
What 2 countries owned Texas before it declared itself independent?
Spain and Mexico
Who were Stephen Austin and Moses Austin?
Moses was a banker and business man and dreamed of starting an American colony in Spanish Texas. Stephen was Moses' son who took over his father's dream after his father died.
Mexican officials gave Stephen Austin some rules about his colony. What were they?
Stephen Austin had to choose only moral and hardworking settlers. The settlers had to become Mexican citizens and join the Catholic Church.
What year did the colony start and how many families came?
In the year 1822 the colony started and in the year 1827, 297 families came.
By 1830, how many people were living in the colony?
25,000 people were living in the colony.
What were the American complaints in the colony?
They (Americans) used to govern themselves and now they didn't governed themselves. They resented taking orders from Mexican officials. All official documents had to be written in Spanish.
What were the Tejano complaints in the colony?
They complained that the American settlers had to come to Texas illegally. Also, most new immigrants showed little respect for Mexican culture and had no intention of becoming citizens.
What did the Mexican government do in response to the complaints about the colony?
They closed Texas to further American immigration. The government sent troops to Texas to make sure people were following the laws.
Stephen Austin went to Mexico to talk to the government. In what year did he go and what happened?
1833, he showed the demands of the Texans to Santa Ana. Santa Anna put Austin in jail for 2 years.
How many troops did Santa Anna take with him into Texas?
6,000 troops
What was the Alamo? How many troops were defending it?
The Old Mission. 180 Texan volunteers and 8 Tejanos.
Why were letters sent out to surrounding towns?
Pleading for reinforcements.
Who was the commander of the Texan Revolutionary Army?
Sam Houston
Santa Anna got captured, what did he do to get freed?
He had to kick out the Mexican soldiers from Texas.
How long was Texas independent for? What was it's name before it became a state?
For 10 years. Lone Star Republic.
Texas became what number state?
The 28th state.
Who is president when Texas becomes a state?
James Polk
What are the north and south borders of the Oregon country?
Rocky Mountains in the east, Pacific Ocean in the west, Russian Alaska in the north and Spanish California and New Mexico in the south.
What 4 countries originally wanted the Oregon Territory?
America, Russia, Spain, and Great Britain.
Why did Spain drop out?
They gave up the Oregon country as part of the deal to but Florida.
Why did Russia drop out?
They said they would take the land that was north of 54*40' parallel of latitude.
Who is Jedediah Smith? Why is he important?
He was a fur trapper and discovered a new way through the Rockies and called it the "South Pass.
Why was the South Pass better for pioneers?
It was low and flat enough for the pioneer's wagons to go through.
Why was Oregon attractive for new settlers?
People said that it was "Pioneer's Paradise" because the weather was sunny and disease was unknown, trees grew as thick as hairs on a dog's back and farms were free for taking.
What was the 49th parallel?
North of the United States border.
Why did president Polk hope New Mexico and California territories would be for sale? What did he do to try and get this land?
He could expand America more and he wanted to make a treaty with Mexico. He sent a representative to Mexico to try and buy them, but Mexico refused.
Why and how did the war break out in Texas?
The Mexican soldiers fired on the Americans who were patrolling around Rio Grande. 16 Americans were wounded or dead. Mexicpo invaded our land.
What two rivers are being disputed for borders?
Nueces and Rio Grande
How did American gain California?
Fremont made a fight against Mexico in California. He put Guadalupe Vallejo the Mexican commander in northern California in jail. Fremont raised flag with grizzly bear drawn from blackberry juice and declared California as the Bear Flag Republic.
Tell me about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
America and Mexico made a treaty in 1848 that Mexico would give America California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona all of Texas, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming for $15 million.