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EarlyUS6.1-3

reshaping America 1800s

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Junipero Serra Leader of Franciscan priests who established missions in California.
expansionist Americans who favored territorial growth
Manifest Destiny The belief that the United States should own all of North America.
Santa Fe Trail From Missouri to New Mexico, an important road for Mexican American commerce.
Mountain Men Americans who explored and hunted in the Rocky Mountains.
Oregon Trail A route that settlers took to get to the Pacific Northwest.
Brigham Young The leader of the Mormon Church who led them to present day Utah.
Treaty of Fort Laramie Bound Native Americans to territories away from major trails.
Stephen F. Austin Led American emigrants who settled in Texas.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna A general who seized power and became the leader of Mexico.
autonomy Independent control
Lone Star Republic The nickname of an independent Texas.
Alamo A fortified mission in San Antonio.
Sam Houston First President of the Republic of Texas.
James K. Polk Became U.S. President in 1844.
Zachary Taylor Led American soldiers into the disputed borderlands, attacked by Mexican soldiers.
Winfield Scott American General who helped to win the Mexican War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ended the Mexican War, brought a lot of territory into the United States.
Gadsden Purchase The U.S. acquired 29,640 square miles of land from Mexico, southern Arizona and New Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso A proposal to ban slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico.
California Gold rush A mass migration of people seeking to get rich in the western United States.
Forty niner People who traveled to California in search of gold.
Placer mining Using pans, picks, and shovels to harvest gold flecks from the sand along the banks and bottoms of rivers and streams.
Hydraulic mining Using jets of water to erode gravel hills into long lines of sluices to catch gold.
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