Chapter13 Vocab.JH:) Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
(Mountain Man) who was leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when he was attacked be a bear. The bear seized his head, and tore offf an ear. | Jedediah Smith |
daring fur trappers and explorers | mountain men |
famous mountain man ledgend. | Jim Beckwourth |
These people brought huge amounts of land | land speculator |
This trail started in Missouri, and went to Santa Fe. | Santa Fe Trail |
This trail led from Independence Missouri, to Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
These groups of people settled in Utah, and were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | Mormon |
1844, an anti-Mormon mob killed Smith, so this person became the new Mormon leader. | Brigham Young |
son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner | Stephen Austin |
people of Spanish Heritage who considered Texas their home. | Tejano |
General who was Mexico's President | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
A man who had military experience was placed in comamand of the Texas Army. | Sam Houston |
led a small force including the famous Davy Crockett. | William Travis |
led a ban of 25 Tejanos in support of the revolt. | Juan Seguin |
When William Travis's Army fought against Santa Anna's army. They lost, but killed many soldiers, all of them died. | Battle of the Alamo |
This proclaimed Texas an independence nation | Lone Star Republic |
Ran against Henry Clay in the 1844 election. | James K. Polk |
suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen, even if you had to push people out of the way. | manifest destiny |
general, who stationed troops on the Northern Bank of the Rio Grande. | Zachary Taylor |
An American revolt led by explorer John C. Fremont against Mexican rule. | Bear Flag Revolt |
Mexican general, battled toward Mexico City. | Winfield Scott |
Feb. 2 1848, the war officaily ended with this. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Mexico ceded, or gave up, a vast region known as this. | Mexican Cession |
someone who went to California to find gold, 1849. | forty-niner |
settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californio |
member of one of the oldest Spanish speaking families in America. | Mariano Vallejo |
A swiss immigrant. | John Sutter |
1848, carpenter who built a saw mill on a nearby American river. | James Marshall |
When people rushed to California for gold. | Califronia Gold Rush |
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