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Unit 10A Colonies Vo
Unit 10A Colonies Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 who explored the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains; they also became trail guides |
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | missionaries who 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 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 who fought and died at the Alamo |
Sam Houston | former Tennessee governor; commander of the Texan army; first president of the Texan Republic |
Battle of the Alamo | defeat that inspired Texans to fight harder and win their independence |
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | president and dictator of Mexico during the Texan Revolution and Mexican War |
Battle of San Jacinto | last battle of the Texan Revolution that gave Texas its independence; lasted only 18 minutes |
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 all over the world to Northern California for gold in 1848-1849; changed California and the United States economy |
James Marshall | worker at Sutter's Mill who 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 US after the Mexican War; includes California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, etc. |
Tejanos | Mexicans living in Texas who fought with the Americans |
Chinese | immigrants who 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 |