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Ch 11 Vocab
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Battle of the Alamo | an 1836 battle in which Santa Anna's Mexican troops stormed the Alamo and killed all 190 Texians inside |
| Battle of San Jacinto | an 1836 battle in which Sam Houston's Texian troops defeated Santa Anna's army while shouting "Remember the Alamo" |
| Mexican-American War | a war that began in 1846, which the Americans won when they captured Mexico City in 1847 and forced Mexico to surrender |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War; the United States gained 500,000 square miles of territory, the southern border was set at the Rio Grande, and the United States paid Mexico $18.25 million |
| Gadsden Purchase | the United States' purchase of the southern part of New Mexico for $10 million |
| manifest destiny | the belief that the United States had been "chosen" to bring democratic ideals to all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
| Oregon Treaty of 1846 | a treaty that created a 2,175-mile-long border that split the Oregon Territory between the British in Canada and the United States |
| California Gold Rush | the journey, beginning in 1849, that over 80,000 people (called Forty-Niners) made to California to reach the newly discovered gold fields |
| Pony Express | a mail delivery system introduced in 1860 that used a continuous horse-and-rider relay from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California |
| free sail | the idea that the national government had the right to keep slavery from spreading into new territories |
| popular sovereignty | the idea that people in a new territory should be allowed to decide an issue (such as whether to allow slavery) for themselves |
| Compromise of 1850 | laws passed in 1850 in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state, slave trading was ended in the District of Columbia, and Texas gave up its idea of annexing New Mexico |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | legislation introduced to organize an area into the Kansas and Nebraska Territories, which included a clause stating that the Compromise of 1850 had made popular sovereignty available to the territories |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that enslaved people could be taken to free territories by their owners and would remain enslaved |
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