Ch. 9: Expanding Markets & Moving West Flashcards

1

Who invented the telegraph?

2

Who invented the steel plow?

3

What was the Alamo?

4

The final purchase on the US mainland was what?

5

What is raising one or two cash crops that you can sell at home or abroad?

6

What of the following made settlers flock to the west?

7

What trail started in Independence, Mississippi and led to Portland, Oregon?

8

When Santa Anna revoked Mexico's local power of Texas what was the retaliation called?

9

In 1846 what territory declared independence from Mexico?

10

What was the belief that the US should stretch Atlantic to Pacific?

Ch. 9: Expanding Markets & Moving West