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Unit 10 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Manifest Destiny | America's God given fate to land from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
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 fertile land |
Joseph Smith | founder of the Mormon Church/Church of Latter-Day Saints |
Brigham Young | led the Mormons to the great salt lake in Utah |
Oregon trail | trail used in the mid-1800 for pioneers to reach Oregon fro land and adventure |
Santa 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 TN, democrat, achieved manifest destiny for the United States |
David Crockett | TN frontiersman that fought and died at the Alamo |
Sam Houston | former TN governor, commander of the Texan Army, 1st president of Texas republic |
Battle of the Alamo | defeat that inspired the Texans to fight hard to 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 |
Mexican War | 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 for gold in 1848-1849, changed the economy |
James Marshall | worker at sutters mill that found the 1st nugget of gold |
John Sutter | owner of the sawmill where the 1st gold was 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 US after the Mexican War (California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona) |
Tejanos | Mexicans living in Texas that fought with the Amerucans |
Chinese | immigrants that 1st 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 |