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Chapter 14
Texan Independence and the acts and cases leading up to
the Civil War
Vocab People Acquiring Land
Texas and Independence
Acts and Cases
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500 500 500 500 500
Vocab100
To add on to your country
Answer:
Annex
Vocab200
It is our right to expand westward
Answer:
Manifest Destiny
Vocab300
President who believed in Manifest Destiny
Answer:
Polk
Vocab400
To vote on a law
Answer:
Popular Sovereignty
Vocab500
Pro-slavery people who cross the border to violently fight for slavery
Answer:
Border Ruffians
People 100
Famous for a new type of knife
Answer:
Bowie
People 200
General who becomes president of Mexico
Answer:
Santa Anna
People 300
Blazed the California trail
Answer:
Joe Walker
People 400
Showed that it was possible for a family to move west
Answer:
The Whitmans
People 500
Former congressman who became an Alamo defender
Answer:
Crockett
Acquiring Land100
This lead up to California statehood
Answer:
The Gold Rush
Acquiring Land200
Slogan to push for all of the Oregon territory
Answer:
54 40 or Fight
Acquiring Land300
Start of both trails
Answer:
Independence, Missouri
Acquiring Land400
Buying a small strip of land for a railroad in 1853
Answer:
Gadsden Purchase
Acquiring Land500
What is the southern boundary of Texas according to Texas and Mexico? (You need both and label which is which)
Answer:
Texas – Rio Grande River
Mexico – Nueces River
Texas and Independence 100
An old Spanish mission where Texans stood for independence
Answer:
The Alamo
Texas and Independence 200
What treaty marked the final triumph of manifest destiny?
Answer:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Texas and Independence 300
Who signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Answer:
Mexico and the U.S.
Texas and Independence 400
What is the Mexican Cession?
Answer:
Land that was given after the war
Texas and Independence 500
3 reasons why Texas pushed for Independence
Answer:
Religion, government, slavery
Acts and Cases 100
What was Dred Scott’s owner’s job?
Answer:
Military Surgeon
Acts and Cases 200
Why was the Compromise of 1850 necessary?
Answer:
To balance the power in the US (CA wanted to be a state)
Acts and Cases 300
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act use to create the new states?
Answer:
Popular Sovereignty
Acts and Cases 400
What act or compromise was unconstitutional according to the Dred Scott case?
Answer:
Missouri Compromise
Acts and Cases 500
List 3 of the 4 parts of the ruling in the Dred Scott case.
Answer:
1. Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
2. Slaves are not people so they cannot sue
3. Remains a slave
4. Slaves are property and the Constitution protects property