Chapter 13

1.Manifest Destiny Z

2.John O’Sullivan Q

3.Mountain men K

4.Donner Party x2 C L

5.John Charles Fremont B

6.American settlers M

7.Anglo Texans G

8.Battle of the Alamo D

9.Sam Houston A

10.William Henry Harrison x2 F I

11.Texas annexation N

12.The Creole incident J

13.John Tyler Y

14.Martin Van Buren X

15.James K. Polk E

16.Young Hickory O

17.Oregon P

18.Daniel Webster R

19.Mexican-American War T

20.Department of the Interior U

21.Western tribes V

22.David Crockett S

23.Winfield Scott H

24.William B. Travis W

A.This Texan leader served under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 and became the first president of the republic of Texas

B.He was influential in encouraging the mass migration of American to Oregon and California by his reports of his western explorations gained wide circulation and became very popular and was nicknamed the Pathfinder

C.Members of this group engaged in cannibalism when stranded on their way to California

D.At this, the Mexicans won a costly victory

E.He won the 1844 election without a majority of the popular vote, his name was Young Hickory, and his top priority as president was to secure geographic expansion of the US especially through the acquisition of TX, CA, and NM

F.He was elected more on his military record than for taking a stand on the issues

G.They rebelled against the Mexican government out of fear that the Mexican government intended to free their slaves

H.He led American forces at Veracruz

I.He died one month after his inauguration as president

J.This involved the British feeing American slaves after they mutinied and escaped

K.These Americans who blazed western trails were fur trappers

L.They were stranded mainly because of a succession of their own mistakes and poor decisions

M.They settled in Texas because of fertile, inexpensive lands and the Mexican government wanted to curtail American settlement in Texas because they worried about the behavior and intentions of the Americans living their

N.The major factor that delayed this until 1845 was concern over this state entering as a slave state

O.This nickname of Polk’s most reflected his association with Jackson and support for Jacksonian policies

P.The boundary dispute with Britain over this territory was resolved by agreeing to a border along the 49^th parallel

Q.This newspaper editor coined the term manifest destiny

R.He was opposed to the Mexican-American War because he believed that the origins of the war were “unconstitutional”

S.He was a real person who fought at the Alamo, Disney did not make him up

T.This was America’s first majority military war outside of the US, several prominent Americans opposed it, more Americans died of disease than died in battles, and the fighting lasted 2 years

U.In 1849, Congress created this this to supervise the distribution of land, the creation of new territories and states, and the “protection” of the Indians and their reservations

V.All of these eventually felt the unrelenting pression of white expansion and conquest

W.He was a defender at the Alamo who wrote a very inspiring letter asking for reinforcements

X.He failed to win the Democratic party’s nomination in 1844 because of his position on Texas

Y.He was described as a president without a party and was the vice-presidential candidate in 1840

Z.This is the idea that American expansion westward across the continent was sanctioned by God