Name:________________________________Per:________
14.1 The Oregon Country
1. Define the following terms:
Emigrant
Prairie Schooner
Rivalry in the Northwest
2. Match each country to the reason it claimed the vast Oregon Country in the early 1800s.
______ United States
a. had settlements south from Alaska into Oregon
______ Great Britain
b. discovery of Columbia River / Lewis & Clark Expedition
______ Spain
c. controlled California
______ Russia
d. had explored the Columbia River / claimed Canada
3. Why was Oregon a valuable region?
4. Match the correct terms regarding John Quincy Adams’ efforts to obtain Oregon for the U.S.
______ Adams-Onis Treaty
a. U.S. and Britain agreed to joint occupation
______ Alaska
b. two countries can live in and use the same area
______ Convention of 1818
c. Spain set border at California / gave up claims to Oregon
______ Joint Occupation
d. proposed border between the U.S. and Canada
______ 49th parallel
e. Russia’s southern border
5. Who were the first Americans to live in Oregon, and what brought them there?
6. What were the two main challenges faced by those in the fur-trapping industry?
Oregon and Manifest Destiny
7. Read about Oregon and Manifest Destiny and fill in the chart below.
____________ troubles
Wagons were called
Colonial Americans
in the East and reports
prarie schooners
believed the nation was
of its __________ land
because they looked
a model of __________
drew settlers to Oregon.
like _________ at sea.
and _______________
Among the first settlers
_______ of thousands
Americans in the 1800s
were ______________:
of emigrants would
wanted to spread
Marcus and Narcissa
travel in canvas-
freedom by settling the
Whitman.
covered ____________
__________________.
Native Americans
News of the Whitman
Adams said expansion
attacked their village
massacre did not stop
to the _____________
after a _____________
____________ who left
was as certain as a river
epidemic spread.
the U.S. for Oregon.
flowing to the sea.
8. Look at the map on pg. 401. Why wasn’t the Oregon Trail route straight?
9. What did newspaper editor John O’Sullivan mean by the phrase “Manifest Destiny?”
10. What role did the political slogan “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” play in the Election of 1844?
11. How were Oregon’s border disputes resolved with Britain?
14.2 Statehood for Florida and Texas
Florida
1. Define the following terms:
Tejano
Annex
2. Why did planters from Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas go to Florida?
3. What fraction of the population of Florida were enslaved people?
4. Why did it take six years for Congress to admit Florida as a state in the Union?
5. How was the conflict resolved?
Texas
6. Number the following statements about Texas to put events in the order they occurred.
__________ Stephen F. Austin brought 300 American families to settle in Texas.
__________ Mexico threatened to ban slavery and closed its borders to further immigration.
__________ The conflict grew violent and a Mexican army went to stop them.
__________ Mexico won its independence from Spain, and Texas was now part of Mexico.
__________ Texans began planning to break away from Mexico.
__________ Mexico wanted to increase settlement and offered vast tracts of land to settlers.
__________ Americans outnumbered Tejanos, and tensions developed when they refused to
learn Spanish or become Catholic.
7. As you read about the Battle of the Alamo, fill in the chart below.
Cause:
Effect: Santa Anna found a small Texan
force barricaded inside a mission
building called the Alamo.
Cause: The Texan army was
Effect:
outnumbered with 180 soldiers to fight
several thousand. Their defenses fell.
Cause:
Effect: Texan leaders set up a
temporary government with Sam
Houston in command.
Cause: The Texans launched a surprise
Effect:
attack on Santa Anna’s forces at the
Battle of San Jacinto.
8. Why did Andrew Jackson refuse Texas’ request for annexation?
9. What changed in 1844 that caused Congress to annex Texas the following year?
10. Read the two arguments regarding Manifest Destiny on page 408 and 409. Which writer’s
position do you find more persuasive? Why?