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Ch.13 Vocab
Hajin Seo S1200120 Ch.13 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He was leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. | Jedediah Smith |
| Jedediah Smith was one of the daring fur trappers and explorers. | Mountain Man |
| He was famous as rugged loners. | Jim Beckwourth |
| They bought huge areas of land. | land speculators |
| Which led from Missouri to Santa Fe. | Santa Fe Trail |
| Which ran from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
| Who settled Utah, were members of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints. | Mormons |
| The next Mormon leader, moved his people out of the United States. | Brigham Young |
| Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. | Stephen Austin |
| They are people of Spanish heritage who consider Texas their home. | Tejano |
| The Mexican President. | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| The only man at the meeting with millitary experience. | Sam Houston |
| This small force included such famous frontiersmen as Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. | William Transis |
| He led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt. | Juan Seguin |
| Texans defended all church called the Alamo against the Mexican Army. | Battle of the Alamo |
| Nickname of Texas | Lone Star Republic |
| He was America's first "dark horse". | James K. Polk |
| It suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen. | manifest destiny |
| Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. | Zachary Taylor |
| They arrested the Mexican commander of Northern California and raised a crude flag showing a grizzly bear sketched in blackberry juice. | Bear Flag Revolt |
| HE landed at Veracruz o the Gulf of Mexico battled inland toward Mexico city. | windfield Scott |
| It ended the war. | Treaty of Hidalgo |
| Mexico ceded, or gave up, a vast region. | Mexican Cession |
| Someone who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849. | forty-niner |
| Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californio |
| A member of the oldest Spanish families in America. | Mariano Vallejo |
| A Swiss immigrant | John Sutter |
| Sutter sent him to build sawmil on the nearby American river. | James Marchall |
| A gold rush occurs when large numbers of people move to a site where gold has been found. | California gold rush |
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