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chapter9
history
Term | Definition |
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"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" | supporters of James K. Polk cried this; meant they wanted all of Oregon to the 54,40' north latitude line. |
James K. Polk | promised in the 1844 presidential race to annex Texas and Oregon and buy California from Mexico. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | America paid Mexico $15 million plus assumed $3.25 million of Mexican debt. |
Squatters | settled on land they did not own. |
Donner party | tried to survive by resorting to cannibalism. |
Mormons | traveled west, settled in Utah in search of religious freedom. |
Manifest destiny | the idea that God had given the continent to Americans, and wanted them to settle Western land. |
National Colonization Act | Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of Texas land in exchange for a promise to fill the land with a number of settlers. |
Republic of Texas | after winning independence from Mexico, most Texans voted for annexation. |
American settlers in Texas | Mexico invited Americans and foreigners to settle Texas because its own citizens did not want to move closer to Native Americans; Mexico believed they would see Mexico as their own country. |
John Louis O'Sullivan | magazine editor who terms the idea Manifest Destiny. |
Texas revolution | Battle of san Jacinto the final decisive battle for Texans; Texans defeated at the Battle of the Alamo. |
Overlanders | used guidebooks to find their way West. |
John Deere | engineered a plow with slick, sharp-edged steel blades that cut clearly through the sod. |
Sam Houston | First president of the Republic of Texas. |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana | captured in the battle of San Jacinto |
Brigham Young | Led the Mormons west to escape further persecution. |
Cyrus McCormick | patented the mechanical reaper in 1834. |
Zachary Taylor | led the troops who crossed the Nueces River, starting war with Mexico. |
Abolitionism | southerners saw it as an attack on their entire way of life. |