Name: 
 

War & the West



Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
Juan Bautista de Anza
d.
William Becknell
b.
rancho
e.
John C. Frémont
c.
John Sutter
 

 1. 

built trading post in Sacramento Valley
 

 2. 

American army officer who traveled through California
 

 3. 

huge California property owned by Mexicans
 

 4. 

the first American trader to reach Santa Fe
 

 5. 

started the first settlement in San Francisco in 1776
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
forty-niner
d.
Joseph Smith
b.
California Gold Rush
e.
Brigham Young
c.
vigilantes
 

 6. 

led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake
 

 7. 

they take the law into their own hands
 

 8. 

founded the Mormon church
 

 9. 

sought gold in California
 

 10. 

expanded agriculture, shipping, and trade
 

Short Answer
 

 11. 

The New Mexico territory contained all or part of what five present-day states?
 

 12. 

What was the name of the road that connected the Spanish missions in California?
 

 13. 

One cause of strained relations between the U.S. and Mexico was a boundary dispute that concerned what two rivers?
 

 14. 

Frederick Douglass opposed war with Mexico because he thought that the South would bring ____ to any new territories won in the war.
 

 15. 

What was the name of the peace treaty that ended the Mexican War?
 

 16. 

What drew the first large group of Asian immigrants to America in the mid-1800s?
 

 17. 

The California Gold Rush more than ____ the world’s supply of gold.
 

 18. 

Why did California’s request for statehood in 1850 cause a crisis in Congress?
 

 19. 

Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called their new home ____.
 

 20. 

The Land Law of 1851 weakened the property rights of what group of people?
 



 
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