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Chapter13 Vocab.JH:)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (Mountain Man) who was leading an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when he was attacked be a bear. The bear seized his head, and tore offf an ear. | Jedediah Smith |
| daring fur trappers and explorers | mountain men |
| famous mountain man ledgend. | Jim Beckwourth |
| These people brought huge amounts of land | land speculator |
| This trail started in Missouri, and went to Santa Fe. | Santa Fe Trail |
| This trail led from Independence Missouri, to Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
| These groups of people settled in Utah, and were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | Mormon |
| 1844, an anti-Mormon mob killed Smith, so this person became the new Mormon leader. | Brigham Young |
| son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner | Stephen Austin |
| people of Spanish Heritage who considered Texas their home. | Tejano |
| General who was Mexico's President | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| A man who had military experience was placed in comamand of the Texas Army. | Sam Houston |
| led a small force including the famous Davy Crockett. | William Travis |
| led a ban of 25 Tejanos in support of the revolt. | Juan Seguin |
| When William Travis's Army fought against Santa Anna's army. They lost, but killed many soldiers, all of them died. | Battle of the Alamo |
| This proclaimed Texas an independence nation | Lone Star Republic |
| Ran against Henry Clay in the 1844 election. | James K. Polk |
| suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen, even if you had to push people out of the way. | manifest destiny |
| general, who stationed troops on the Northern Bank of the Rio Grande. | Zachary Taylor |
| An American revolt led by explorer John C. Fremont against Mexican rule. | Bear Flag Revolt |
| Mexican general, battled toward Mexico City. | Winfield Scott |
| Feb. 2 1848, the war officaily ended with this. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Mexico ceded, or gave up, a vast region known as this. | Mexican Cession |
| someone who went to California to find gold, 1849. | forty-niner |
| settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californio |
| member of one of the oldest Spanish speaking families in America. | Mariano Vallejo |
| A swiss immigrant. | John Sutter |
| 1848, carpenter who built a saw mill on a nearby American river. | James Marshall |
| When people rushed to California for gold. | Califronia Gold Rush |
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