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Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Smith | a mountain man leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mts. |
| mountain man | a fur trapper or explorer who opened up the West by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mts. |
| Jim Beckwourth | a mountain man who became famous as rugged loners |
| land speculator | a person who buys huge areas of land for a low price and then sells of small sections of it at high prices |
| Santa Fe Trail | a trail that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Oregon Trail | a trail that ran westward from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory |
| Mormon | a member of a church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 |
| Brigham Young | the man who took Joseph Smith's place as the Mormon Leader |
| Stephen Austin | son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner who carried out his father's dying wish |
| Tejano | a person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | the Mexican president |
| Sam Houston | placed in command of the Texas army |
| William Travis | headed a company of 183 volunteers at the Alamo |
| Juan Seguin | led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt |
| Battle of the Alamo | in 1836, Texans defended a church called the Alamo against the Mexican army; all but five Texans were killed |
| Lone Star Republic | the nickname of the republic of Texas, given in 1836 |
| James K. Polk | the 11th president of the United States |
| manifest destiny | the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Zachary Taylor | President Polk ordered him to station troops on the northern band of the Rio Grande |
| Bear Flag Revolt | the 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California |
| Winfield Scott | defeated Mexico City September 1847 |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | the 1848 treaty ending the US 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, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming |
| forty-niner | a person who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849 |
| Californio | settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent |
| Mariano Vallejo | an important Californio; a member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land |
| John Sutter | a Swiss immigrant |
| James Marshall | in 1848, Sutter sent a nearby carpenter, himself, to build a sawmill on the nearby American River |
| California gold rush | in 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there |
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