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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)

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