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VA US 6.3
VA US Vocabulary 6.3
Term | Definition |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War |
Gadsden Purchase | 1853 purchase of land (present day Arizona and New Mexico) from Mexico |
Wilmot Proviso | the proposed, but rejected 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War. |
California Gold Rush | the mass migration to California after the discover of gold in 1848 |
forty-niner | a miner who went to California after the discovery of gold in 1848 |
placer mining | the use of metal pans, picks and shovels to harvest gold from the banks and beds of rivers and streams |
hydraulic mining | the use of water to erode gravel hills into long sluices to catch any gold |