Overland trail of more than two thousand miles that carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah

Groups of settlers on the nineteenth-century frontier who banded together to prevent the price of their land claims from being bid up by outsiders at public land auctions

The 900-mile trail opened by American merchants for trading purposes following Mexico's liberalization of the formerly restrictive trading policies of Spain

A person of Spanish or Mexican descent born in Texas

Agents who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements

Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas, that was the site in 1836 of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops

Persons of Spanish descent living in California

Mexican Cession of 1848

The addition of half a million square miles to the United States as a result of victory in the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico

Doctrine, first expressed in 1845, that the expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God

Settlers surge into the trans-Appalachian region

Stephen F. Austin establishes the first American colony in Texas

Texas wins Independence from Mexico

Smallpox epidemic hits the Plains Indians

First large parties of migrants set out on the Oregon Trail

Mormons begin the settlement of Utah

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War

Fort Laramie Treaty with the Plains Indians signed

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Chapter 13 Quiz

Question	Answer
Oregon Trail	Overland trail of more than two thousand miles that carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah
Claims clubs	Groups of settlers on the nineteenth-century frontier who banded together to prevent the price of their land claims from being bid up by outsiders at public land auctions
Santa Fe Trail	The 900-mile trail opened by American merchants for trading purposes following Mexico's liberalization of the formerly restrictive trading policies of Spain
Tejanos	A person of Spanish or Mexican descent born in Texas
Empresario	Agents who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements
Alamo	Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas, that was the site in 1836 of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops
Californios	Persons of Spanish descent living in California
Mexican Cession of 1848	The addition of half a million square miles to the United States as a result of victory in the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico
Manifest Destiny	Doctrine, first expressed in 1845, that the expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God
1st	Settlers surge into the trans-Appalachian region
2nd	Stephen F. Austin establishes the first American colony in Texas
3rd	Texas wins Independence from Mexico
4th	Smallpox epidemic hits the Plains Indians
5th	First large parties of migrants set out on the Oregon Trail
6th	United States annexes Texas
7th	Mexican War breaks out
8th	Mormons begin the settlement of Utah
9th	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War
10th	Fort Laramie Treaty with the Plains Indians signed

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