Chapter 11
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Who was Biddy Mason?
- a slave during the Gold Rush times
- When they all moved, what did the Mormons hope to find in the West?
- religous freedom
- Details of the Oragon Trail?
- 2,000 miles, 6 months
- When Mexico won its independance from Spain, what happened to California as a result?
- Mexico began to change old Spanish policies
- How did women make money in the mining comunities?
- cooking meals, washing clothes, and operating boardhouses
- William Travis says "Victory or Death", what war is he referring to?
- Battle of Alamo
- What happened to California's population as a result of the Gold Rush?
- it rose, up to 25,000
- What does manifest destiny mean?
- to settle land all the way to the Pacific Oceanin order to spread democracy
- What cause the American fur trade to move westwardin the early 1800's?
- they killed off all of the beavers in the East, so they went West searching for more because beavers made the fur traders alot of money
- What lesson might a western traveler have learned from the story of the Donner party?
- stick to the route that you know