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chap 13 vocabz
Chap 13 sg
Question | Answer |
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A fur trapper or explorer who discovered trails through the Rocky Mountains | Mountain man |
Famous mountain man | Jedediah Smith |
Famous mountain man | Jim Beckworth |
A person who buys land in the hope that it will increase in value and bring in a profit | Land speculator |
Trail from missouri to Santa Fe,New Mexico | Santa Fe Trail |
Trail from Missouri to Oregon Territory | Oregon Trail |
A member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | mormon |
Mormon leader | Brigham young |
A person of spanish heritage who considers Texas his or her home | Tejano |
Started american colony in Texas | Stephen Austin |
President of Mexico | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
First president of the Republic of Texas | Sam Houston |
Army leader at the Battle of the Alamo | Juan Seguin |
Key battle for Texan Independence | Battle of the Alamo |
Nickname of the Texas Rebulic | Lone Star Republic |
Belief that the United States would expand across the continent | Manifest Destiny |
11th president of the United States | James K. Polk |
U.s. General in the War with Mexico | Zachary Taylor |
Rebellion by Americans against Mexican Rule in California | Bear Flag Revolt |
U.S. General in the War with Mexico | Winfield Scott |
Treaty ending the war with mexico | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Vast region given up by Mexico to the United States After the War with Mexico | Mexican Cession |
a person who went to California to find Gold | Forty-niner |
To leave behind | Abandon |
To attack from a hidden place | Ambush |
To add to something else | Annex |
To mark new trails | Blaze |
Military troops that were trained to fight on horseback | Calvalry |
To give up | Cede |
A person who cheats others out of money | Con artist |
A person who agreed to recruit settlers for the land they were given | Empresario |
Something handed down to later generations from earlier generations | Heritage |
Things that are bought and sold | merchandise |
A group moving together from one place to another | Migration |
A large disorderly crowd | mob |
To be fortunate or successful | prosper |
A meeting | Rendezvous |
A form of government in which power lies with the voters | Republic |
To cheat of money or property | Swindle |
Army leader at the battle of the Alamo | William travis |
A california settler of spanish or mexican descent | Californio |
A Californio and a member of one of the oldest spanish Families in America | Mariano Vallejo |
A california settler on whose land gold was found | John sutter |
A carpenter who found gold Sutters Mill | James Marshall |
Occurred when large numbers of people moved to california | California gold Rush |