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Unit 10 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Manifest Destiny | America's God gave fate to own land from the Atlantic Ocean to The Pacific Ocean |
Mountain Men | fur trappers that explored the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains; they also became trail guides |
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | missionaries that encouraged Americans to settle Oregon because of the fertile land |
Joseph Smith | founder of the Mormon Church or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -Day Saints |
Brigham Young | Led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah |
Oregon Trail | trail used in the mid-1800s for pioneers to reach Oregon for land and adventure |
Santa Fe Trail | trail used by merchants to trade with mexico |
California Trail | trail used by Americans to reach California for gold |
James K. Polk | 11th president; from Tennessee; Democrat; achieved manifest destiny for the United States in the Mexican War |
David Crockett | Tennessee frontiersman that fought and died at the Alamo |
Sam Houston | former Tennessee governor; commander of the Texan army; first president of Texas Republic |
Battle of the Alamo | defeat that inspired the Texans to fight hard to win their independence |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | president and dictator of Mexico during the Texas Revolution and Mexican War |
Battle of San Jacinto | last battle of the Texas Revolution that gave Texas their independence; lasted only 18 minutes |
Mexican War | war fought between 1846-1848; led to the United States acquiring Mexico |
Fifty- Four Forty or fight | James K. Polk's campaign slogan in 1844 to get all of Oregon from Britain |
Bear Flag Revolt | uprising in California during the Mexican War; Americans declared independence from Spain |
California Gold Rush | mass migration of around the world to northern California for gold in 1848-1849; changed California and the United States economy |
James Marshall | worker at Sutters Mill that found the first the nugget of gold |
John Sutter | owner of the sawmill where gold was first found in 1848; kickstarted the Gold Rush |
Zachary Taylor | popular general during the Mexican |
Rio Grande | river the US claimed was the border between Texas and Mexico |
Nueces River | river that Mexico claimed was the border between Texas Mexico |
Annexation | an addition to a country |
Gadsden Purchase | land bought by the US government in southern Arizona for a transcontinental railroad |
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | officially ended the Mexican War; gave the US the Mexican Cession |
Mexican Cession | land in northern Mexican that was given to the United States after the Mexican War; includes California, New Mexico, Utah< Arizona, etc. |
Tejanos | Mexican living in Texas that fought with the Americans |
Chinese | immigrants that first came to America during the Gold Rush; worked on railroads and opened laundromats |
San Francisco | city that grew as a result of the California Gold Rush |