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Ch.#13
Ch.13 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Smith | a mountain man who lead an exploration through the Rocky Mountains and found the South Pass |
| mountain man | Daring fur Trappers and explorers who opened trails through the Rockies to the West |
| Jim Beckwourth | a famous rugged loner and found the Beckwourth Pass |
| land speculator | bought large amounts of land in hope that it would increase in value so that they could divide it into smaller sections and sell |
| Sante Fe Trail | a trail opened by William Becknell that led from Missouri to Sante Fe |
| Oregon Trail | A trail opened which ran from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon Territory |
| Mormon | a religous group founded by Joseph Smith who settled in Utah and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| Brigham Young | the next Mormon Leader after Joseph Smith who led his people out of The US to the Mexican owned part of Utah |
| Stephan Austin | son of a bankrupt Missouri mone owner who would help to establish the Republic of Texas |
| Tejano | People of Spanish heritage whho consider Texas their home |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | The Mexican president who jailed Austin due to his threat that if Texas couldn't be a self-governed st would break away |
| Sam Houston | The onlt person with military experience at the Washington-on0the-Brazos meeting who would be in command of the Texas army |
| William Travis | lead a company of volunteers to the Alamo |
| Juan Seguin | Lead a band of 25 Tejanos in support of the eventat the Alamo |
| Battle of the Alamo | a long battle against Santa Anna and his army at the Alamo, but lost when the Texans ran out of ammunition |
| Lone Star Republic | the nickname for Texas as an independent nation |
| James K. Polk | a Democratic canidate in the 1844 election who was elected and looked for ways for expansion of the US |
| manifest destiny | the belief that the US id destined to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Zachary Taylor | was ordered by Polk to station troops at the northern bank of the Rio Grande which the troops were ambushed by a Mexican cavalry in April 25, 1846 |
| Bear Flag Revolt | a rebellion lead by John C. Fremont in california against Mexican rule |
| Winfield Scott | lead a forrce that battleds at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland towards Mexico City |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | In February 2, 1848, the treaty ended the war with Mexico having Texas recognized as part of the US and the Rio Grande was the border |
| Mexican Cession | a vast region ceded by Mexico to the US |
| forty-niners | someone who went to California to find gold in 1849 |
| Californio | settlers of Mexican or Spanish descent |
| Mariano Vallejo | member of one of the oldest Spanish families in the US and owned a large amount of land |
| John Sutter | a Swiss immigrant who persuaded the Mexican governer to give him 50,000 acres of land in 1839 |
| James Marshall | a carpenter that Sutter sent to build a sawmill found gold in 1848 |
| California gold rush | a large amount of people that moved to Clifornia upon hearing the discovery of gold |
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