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chpt 13 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Smith | a mountain man who lead a expedition to find a route in the rocky mountains. |
| Mountain Man | were fur traders and explorers. |
| Jim Beckwourth | was a mountain man with Jedediah Smith. |
| Land Speculator | People who bought large amounts of land. They divided the land up and sold peices of the land to people. |
| Santa Fe Trail | was a trail from missouri to Santa fe. |
| Oregon Trail | a trail that leads from independence, missouri to the oregon territory. |
| Mormon | settled in Utah and were later day saints |
| Brigham young | He moved the mormons to utah after the mormon lead Jedediah Smith |
| Stephan Austin | took over his dads dream of starting a colony in Texas |
| Tejano | are people of spanish heritage who called texas their home |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | the mexican president who arrested Austin |
| Sam Houston | the only man at a meeting with any military experience who was placed as the commander of the texas army |
| William Travis | was the leader of a small force at the alamo |
| Juan Seguin | was a tejanos who led a band of 25 tejanos |
| Battle of the alamo | was a fight that lasted for 12 days and 12 nights |
| Lone Star Republic | was the nickname of texas when it was a independent nation |
| James K Polk | was a democratic who was the first dark horse president |
| manifest destiny | was Americas destiny to expand to the west |
| Zachary Taylor | was stationed with troops on the northern bank of the rio grande. |
| Bear Flag Revolt | mexiacans revolted aginst the commander of california and made a flag of a bear. |
| Winfield Scott | he took the mexican apitol Mexico City |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | in this treaty mexico recognized texas as part of the united states and the rio grande was the border between the two nations |
| Mexican Cession | this area was givin to the united states, this area included land from california, nevada, utah, most of arizona. |
| forty-niner | a person who went to california to find gold. |
| californio | was a person of spanish heritage who lived in california |
| Mariano Vallejo | was a californio who owned 250,000 acres of land |
| john Sutter | got 50,000 acres of land in califorina |
| james Marshall | founded gold on John sutter |
| California Gold Rush | was a uprising of people heading west to california to find gold |
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