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Chapter 13 Vocab.
Chapter 13 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A mountain man who suffered a bear mauling and publicized South Pass, which became widely traveled. | Jedediah Smith |
| A fur trapper or explorer who opened up the West by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mountains. | Mountain man |
| A mountain man who discovered a mountain pass that became the main route into northern California in 1850. | Jim Beckwourth |
| One who buys huge areas of land for low prices and then sells off small sections of it for high prices. | Land speculator |
| A trail which led from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened by trader William Becknell in 1821. | Santa Fe Trail |
| A trail that ran westward from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
| A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. | Mormon |
| The Mormon leader who moved his people to Utah in 1847, where they built a settlement near the Great Salt Lake after Joseph Smith was killed in a mob in 1844. | Brigham Young |
| Got permission from the Mexican government to start a colony in Texas; brought the "Old Three Hundred," the original Texas settler families. | Stephen Austin |
| A person of Spanish heritage who considers Texas his/her home. | Tejano |
| The Mexican president who arrested Austin for threatening rebellion and later fought during the Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War for Mexico. | Antonio López de Santa Anna |
| Named commander of the Texas army at a meeting at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1-2, 1836, as he was the only one with military experience. | Sam Houston |
| Led the volunteer force defending the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836. | William Travis |
| A Tejano hero of the Texas Revolution who carried Travis' plea for aid during the Battle of the Alamo. | Juan Seguín |
| Mexican victory in 1836 against Texans defending a mission in San Antonio. All but five were killed. | Battle of the Alamo |
| The nickname of the Republic of Texas, coined in 1836. | Lone Star Republic |
| Eleventh president of the U.S. (Dem.) elected in 1844 who advocated westward expansion. He was America's first "dark horse," a candidate who received unexpected support. | James K. Polk |
| The belief that the U.S. was bound to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. | Manifest destiny |
| Ordered by Polk to station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, part of the disputed territory between the U.S. and Mexico, to force the issue with Mexico. Battled south from Texas into Mexico. | Zachary Taylor |
| An 1846 rebellion by Americans led by John C. Frémont against Mexican rule in California. | Bear Flag Revolt |
| Led a force of soldiers that landed on Veracruz, Mexico and battled inland towards Mexico City. | Winfield Scott |
| Signed on Feb. 2, 1848, it ended the war with Mexico. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| A vast region given up by Mexico after the War wit Mexico that included present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. | Mexican Cession |
| Someone who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849. | Forty-niner |
| Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californio |
| A Californio and member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land and had been the commander of Northern California when it had belonged to Mexico. | Mariano Vallejo |
| A Swiss immigrant who persuaded the Mexican governor to grant him 50,000 acres of land in 1839, upon which he built a fort and dreamed of creating his personal agricultural empire. | John Sutter |
| A carpenter sent by Sutter to build a sawmill on the American river, he first discovered gold there in 1848. | James Marshall |
| In 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there. | California gold rush |
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