Pre-AP Manifest Destiny and Expansion (Ch. 13) People

Name ______Per _____

Pre-AP Manifest Destiny and Expansion (Ch. 13) People

For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans, people have full names. All names need to be spelled and capitalized correctly. After most definitions is a number in parenthesis. This represents the number of underlined terms/events from the Unit Guide that listed for each person. The terms must relate to the person and can be used more than once.

1. ______Took over the leadership of the Mormons after Joseph Smith’s death; in 1847 led 1,600 of them to settle in Utah (2)

2. ______Missionaries who, in 1836, became the first white settlers to travel west and settle in Oregon, their glowing reports of

______the riches of the land motivated thousands to move (1)

3. ______American general who led the northern advance into Mexico in 1846; his military victories in the war helped him win the presidency in 1848 (2)

4. ______Swiss immigrant who had a fort built on 50,000 acres of land in the Sacramento Valley of California; in 1848, gold was found on his land. (1)

5. ______Founder of the Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he was killed in 1844 by an anti-Mormon mob. (1)

6. ______American general who led the army that captured Mexico City in September 1847. (1)

7. ______Elected president in 1844, promised Oregon and Texas, and acquired both, went to war with Mexico and acquired the Mexican Cession (3)

8. ______In 1848, he was sent by Sutter to build a sawmill on the American River, found gold instead. (1)

9. ______General in the U.S. army who was sent in 1848 to occupy New Mexico, and then marched to California. (1)

10. ______General in the Texan army, defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836; the first president of the Republic of Texas (1)

11. ______American explorer who led the rebellion against Mexican rule in California in 1846 (1)

12. ______Senator from Kentucky who was the Whig candidate for president in 1844, fought the annexation of Texas because he believed it would lead to war with Mexico (1)

13. ______A Missouri trader who thought a profit could be made if a trade route existed between Independence and Santa Fe in the early1820s (1)

14. ______Helped bring American settlers to Texas in the early 1820s, became known as the “Father of Texas” (2)