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What opportunities di different groups of
Americans see out West?
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1. businesses
2. farms
3. plantations
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Whay did fighting break out between
Texans and Mexicans?
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Texas settlers resented being ruled by
Mexico and Mexico didn't want to lose
control over Texas.
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What happened at the Battle of the Alamo?
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Gen. Santa Anna attacked the Alamo beacuse they were not becoming citizens.
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What was the outcome of the battle (Alamo)?
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Mexico won the battle but Texans were ready to fight back and bring down Santa Anna.
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What was the rallying cry used by the Americans after the battle?
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"Remember the Alamo"
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What is a Texan of Mexican descent?
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Tejano
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What is a person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it?
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Abolitionist
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What is a law that made it easier for slaveholders to get runaway slaves returned?
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Fugitive Slave Law
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What is the political party that tried to keep Western Territories free of slaves?
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Republican party
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Where was Oregon County located?
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Between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific
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What was "Oregon Fever"?
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Desire of people to move to Oregon County
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Explain how westward expansion and slavery were connected.
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Northerners were opposed to slavery and southerners wanted to keep slaves.
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What 3 positions did most Americans take for slavery?
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1. abolistionists
2. defended slavery
3. thought it was wrong, but feared abolishing
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List 3 things the Compromise of 1850 provided for.
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1. admitted CA as a free state
2. outlawed slave trade in Washington, D.C.
3. made tougher Fugitive Slave Law
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Who was Henry Clay?
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Great compromiser (wrote the Great Compromise)
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