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Unit 10 Vocab
Westward Expansion
Question | Answer |
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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 trial 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Brigham Young | Led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah |
Oregon Trail | trail used in the mid-1800s for pioneers to reach oregon for land and adventure |
Santa Fe Trail | trail used by merchants to trade with Mexico |
California Trail | trail used by Americans to reach California 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 TN governor; commander of the Texan army; first president of Texas Republic |
Battle of the Alamo | defeat the inspired the Texans to fight hard and win their independence |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | president and dictator of Mexico during the Texas Revolution and Mexican War |
Battle of San Jacinto | last battle of the Texas Revolution that gave Texas their independence; lasted only 18 minutes |
Mexican War | fought between 1846-1848; led to the United States acquiring New Mexico |
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight | James K Polk's campaign slogan in 1844 to get all of Oregon from Britain |
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 or gold in 1848-1849; changed California and the US economy |
James Marshall | worker at Sutter's Mill that found the first nugget of gold |
John Sutter | owner of the sawmill where gold was first found in 1848; kickstarter the Gold Rush |
Zachary Taylor | popular general during the Mexican War |
Rio Grande | river that US claimed was the border between TX 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 includes California, new Mexico, Utah, Arizona, etc. |
Tejanos | Mexicans living in Texas that fought with the Americans |
Chinese | immigrants that first came to America during the Gold Rush; worked on railroads and opened laundromats |
San Francisco | city that grew as a result of the California Gold Rush |