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chap.13 vocab s.s
Question | Answer |
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Jedediah Smith | mountain man that was leading an expidition to find a route through the rocky mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. |
Zachary Taylor | got ordered to station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | end of war on feb. 2, 1848. in this, mexico realized that Texas was part of th U.S and he Rio Grande was the border between the nations. |
Santa Anna | mexican president |
Manifest Destiny | suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen- even if it ment pushing Mexicans and Ntive Americans out of the way. |
Mountain men | daring fur trappers and explorers. |
Land speculators | bought huge acres of land. buys it in hope that it will increase in value. |
Mormons | settled in utah, were members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. |
Stephen Austin | helped fufill his fathers dream by establishing an americn colony in texas. |
Tejanos | people of spanish heritage who consider texas their home. |
forty-niner | someone who went to california to find gold. |
Californios | settlers of spanish or mexican decent. |
Juan Seguin | led a band of 25 tejanos in suport of revolt. |
Mariano Vallejo | important californio; a member of one of the oldest spanish families in america, he owned 250,000 acres of land. |
James K. Polk | presidential campain emphasized expansion of the u.s |