Questions for chapter 12

1.) it was the Americans right/destiny that the Americans had to expand the entire country from coast to coast

2.) Oregon Washington Idaho and parts of Wyoming, Montana and Canada - the British Americans Russians and Spanish all claimed parts of it

3.) They lived on the mountains as trappers and adopted many of the native ways but they put themselves out of business

4.) it was a trail that tens of thousands of people marched on to move to Oregon to start a new life

5.) it was a slogan that represented the line of latitude that they wanted to be claimed for America and if they didn't get their way their was going to be war.

6.) That the U.S. would take or fight for Oregon. They would acquire California from Mexico. That he would retire after 4 years. and he would lower the tariff to the federal government

7.) people living in Texas fought for it and became an independent country and then it was adopted by America but it took a few years because the U.S. didn't want to go to war with Mexico

8.) the battle of the Alamo was a surprising one, because the 180 American troops held off thousands of Spanish troops for 12 days until they were over run and killed. The battle San Jacinto - General Houston move his small army 100 miles east waiting for the Spanish and he surprised attacked them killing about half and capturing the rest, this capture is what made Texas become independent.

9.) It took from 1836 until 1844 because the U.S. didn't want to get into a war with Mexico

10.) the war started because the Americans built a fort on the Rio Grande and the Mexicans attacked but it was not a just war because the land they built the fort on was in Mexican territory

11.) Some were against it and some were not but i would say more were in the favor of Manifest destiny.

12.) Monterrey, Mexico city, buena vista

13.) 125,000,000

14.) It made thousands of people move to California including some of the first Chinese people to come to California


6.) the divided it on the 49th latitude line not the 44th


7.) The addition of another slave state would upset the balance of non-slave states to slave states.


8.) It would make the ocean the border between America and other nations instead of having a foreign power as the border. Making the ocean the border would make the country safer.


9.) Mexico refused to sell California and New Mexico so the United States annexed Texas, which the Mexicans thought was illegal.


10.) The gold miners had no other place to purchase their supplies, so the merchants could charge them what ever price they wanted.


13.) The States almost doubled the size by adding California, Texas and the New Mexico Territory. The new border was modified to be cut off at the Rio Grande and to be the ocean.


14.) They were........    >:(


15.) The British and Americans were unable to come to a compromise. Although, in the Mexican-American War case, the Americans were interested in taking all of the land rather than just expanding North. When a compromise was not reached, the war began.