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Ch.13 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jedediah smith | A mountain man was leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. |
| Mountain man | A fur trapper or explorer who opened up the west by finding the best trials through the Rocky Mountains. |
| Jim Beckwourth | Became famous as rugged loners |
| Land speculator | A person who buys huge areas of land for a low price and then sells off small sections of it at high prices. |
| Santa Fe trial | A trial that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Oregon trial | A trial that ran westward from Independence, Missouri to Oregon territory. |
| Mormon | A member of a church founded by Joseph smith in 1830 |
| Brigham young | The new Mormon leader, moved his people out of the U.S. |
| Stephen Austin | Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. |
| Tejano | A person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home. |
| Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna | A general and the Mexican president. |
| Brigham young | The new Mormon leader, moved his people out of the U.S. |
| Stephen Austin | Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. |
| Tejano | A person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home |
| Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna | A general and the Mexican president. |
| Sam Houston | command the Texas Army. |
| William Travis | headed the Alamo with a small force. |
| Juan Seguin | led a band of 25 Tejanos in support revolt. |
| The Battle of the Alamo | in 1836, Texans defended a church called the Alamo aganist the Mexican army; all but 5 texans were killed. |
| Lone Star Republic | the nickname of the republic of texan, given in 1836. |
| James K. Polk | ran aganist Henry Clay in 1844. |
| Manifet Destiny | the belief that the u.s. was destined to stretch arcoss the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Zachary Taylor | a General in the u.s. Army was ordered to station troops on the northen bank of the Rio Grande. |
| Bear Flag revolt | in 1846 rebellion by Americans aganist Mexican rule in California. |
| Winfield Scott | a General that landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland toward Mexico City. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | the 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States. |
| Mexican Cession | a vast region given up by Mexico after the war with Mexico; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. |
| Forty-niner | a person who went to California to find gold, start in 1849. |
| Californios | settlers of Spainish or Mexican descent. |
| Mariano Vallejo | a Californio and a member of one of the oldest Spanish familes in America, he owned 250,000 arces of land. |
| John Sutter | a swiss immigrant, was one exception. |
| James Marshall | a sutter sent a carpenter to build a sawmill on the nearby America river in 1848. |
| California gold rush | in 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there. |
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