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mani fastdestinycp13
manifast destiny cp13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jebediah Smith | mountain man who was leading an expedition to find a way past the Rocky Mountains when attacked by a grizzly bear |
| mountain man | a man who opened the West by discovering the best trail through the rookies |
| Jim Beckwourth | a daring mountain man who was also in a group of fur traders |
| land speculator | peole that bought huge areas of land |
| Santa Fe Trail | a trail that took people from missoury to Santa Fe |
| Oregon Trail | a trail which ran from Independence,Missoury to the Oregon territory |
| Mormon | members of the church of Jesus Christ who settled in Utah |
| Brigham Young | the next Mormon leader,moved his people out of the US to Utah |
| Stephen Austin | son of a bankrupt mine owner who whised his son to be a colonizer so he dexided to follow his fathers wish |
| Tejano | people with spanish heritage who consider Texas their home |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | a Mexican president who was also a general |
| Sam Houston | a man at the meeting of Whashington-on-the-Brazos with military experience |
| William Travis | a guy who led a revolt against the Mexicansin the alamo |
| Juan Sequin | a guy who brought 25 tejanos to support the revolt |
| Battle of the Alamo | a battle to defend the alamo in which we satayed alive for a long time and only 5 Texans survived |
| Lone Star Republic | it proclaimed Texas independence when they raised a flag with a single star |
| James K. Polk | the 11 president of the US who got unexpected bad support from other people |
| manifest destiny | an Expansion that made US bigger and was bound to happen |
| Zachary Taylor | a General who sent his troops to the northern bank of the Rio Grande |
| bear flag revolt | they arrest a mexican commander who sketched a grizzly bear in blackberry juice |
| Winfield Scott | a general who landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland towards Mexico City |
| Treaty of Quadalupe Hidalgo | this treaty gave Texas recognition to be part of US and made Rio Grande the border between nations |
| Mexican Cession | Mexica gave up and left lots of land behind |
| forty-niner | someone who went to California to find gold,starting in 1849 |
| Californio | settlers of spanish or mexican descent |
| Mariano Vallejo | a member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America |
| John Sutter | a Swiss immigrant dressed in an French army uniform vidited Mexico and got 50,000acres in a Valley |
| James Marshall | the guy who first discovered gold in California |
| California gold rush | large number of people moved to the place where gold had been found. |
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