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ch 13 vocab BV
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. | Jedediah Smith |
| daring fur trappers and explorers known as | mountain men |
| became famous as rugged loners. | Jim Beckwourth |
| bought huge areas of land | land speculators |
| led from Missouri to Santa Fe | Santa Fe Trail |
| ran from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory | Oregon Trail |
| settled Utah, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Mormons |
| next Mormon leader | Brigham Young |
| Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner | Stephen Austin |
| people of Spanish heritage who consider Texas their home. | Tejanos |
| Mexican president | Antonio López de Santa Anna |
| the only man at the meeting with military experience | Sam Houston |
| The second was a company of 183 volunteers at the Alamo. Headed by | William Travis |
| led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt | Juan Seguín |
| The Alamo's defenders held off the Mexican attack for 12 violent days. all but five Texans were dead | Battle of the Alamo |
| Texans raised a flag with a single star. They adopted a nickname | Lone Star Republic |
| suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen–even if it meant pushing Mexicans and Native Americans out of the way | manifest destiny |
| station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande | Zachary Taylor |
| , Americans led by the explorer John C. Frémont rebelled against Mexican rule in the | Bear Flag Revolt |
| landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland toward Mexico City | Winfield Scott |
| war officially ended with the | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Mexico also ceded, or gave up, a vast region known as the | Mexican Cession |
| someone who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849. | forty–niner |
| settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent | Californios |
| important Californio was | Mariano Vallejo |
| a Swiss immigrant | John Sutter |
| Sutter sent a carpenter named | James Marshall |
| From all over California, people raced to the American River–starting the | California gold rush |
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