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Unit 10 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | America's God given fate to own land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Mountain Men | Fur trappers that explored the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains; they also became trail guides. |
| Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | Missionaries that encouraged Americans to settle Oregon because of the fertile land. |
| Joseph Smith | Founder of the Mormon Church or the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. |
| Brigham Young | Led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. |
| Oregon Trail | Trail used in the Mid 1800s for the pioneers to reach Oregon for land and adventure. |
| Snta Fe Trail | Trail used by merchants to trade with Mexico |
| California Trail | Trail used by Americans to reach California for gold |
| James K Polk | 11th president; from Tennessee; Democrat; achieved manifest destiny for the United States in the Mexican War. |
| David Crockett | Tennessee frontiersman that fought and died at the Alamo. |
| Sam Houston | Former Tennessee governor; commander of the Texan Aermy; first president of the Lone Star Republic. |
| Battle of the Alamo | Defeat that inspired the Texans to fight hard to win their independence. |
| Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna | President and dictator of Mexico during the Texas revolution and the Mexican War. |
| Battle of San Jacinto | Last Battle of the Texas Revolution that gave Texas their independence; only lasted 18 minutes. |
| Mexican War | War fought between 1846 and 1848 led to the United States acquiring New Mexico. |
| Fifty-Four Forty or Fight | James K Polk campaign slogan in 1844 to get all of Oregon from Britian. |
| Bear Flag Revolt | uprising in California during the Mexican War; Americans declared independence from Spain. |
| California Gold Rush | Mass migration of people from around the world to Northern California in 1848 to 1849; changed California and the United States ecomomy. |
| James Marshall | Worker at Sutters Mill that found the first nugget of gold. |
| John Sutter | Owner of the sawmill where gold was first found in 1848; kick started the Gold Rush. |
| Zachary Taylor | Popular general during the Mexican War |
| Rio Grande | River the US claimed was the border between Texas and Mexico. |
| Nueces River | River that Mexico claimed was the border between Texas and Mexico. |
| Annexation | an addition to a country |
| Gadsden Purchase | Land bought by the US government in southern Arizona for a transcontinental railroad. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Officially ended the Mexican War gave the US the Mexican Cession. |
| Mexican Cession | Land in Northern Mexico that was given to the United States after the Mexican Cession includes California, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. |
| Tejanos | Mexicans living in Texas that fought with the Americans. |
| Chinese | immigrants that first came to America during the Gold Rush worked on the railroad and opened laudromats. |
| San Franciso | City that grew as a result of the California Gold Rush |