Ch. 11 test review
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- Who was Biddy Mason?
- a slave from the Gold Rush times
- What caused the American fur trade to move westwardin the early 1800's?
- they killed all of the beavers in the East, so they went West looking for more beavers
- What does manifest destiny mean?
- or obvious fate, to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy
- When they all moved, what did the Mormons hope to find in the West?
- religous freedom
- When William Travis said, "Victory or Death" which important battle was he referring to during the Texas War?
- Battle at Alamo
- How did women make money in the mining communities?
- cooking meals, washing clothes, operating boardinghouses
- What lesson might a western traveler have learned from the story of the Donner party?
- stick to the route that you know
- What happened to California's population as a result of the Gold Rush?
- it rose up to 25,000
- When Mexico won its independance from Spain, what happened in California as a result?
- Mexico began to change old Spanish policies
- Details of the Oragon Trail?
- 2,000 miles, 6 months