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Texas Vocab Chap. 13

I LIEK HISTORY HURRRR :B

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Jedediah Smith Was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the nineteenth century.
Mountain men Frontiersman: a man who lives on the frontier. Frontiersman: a man who lives on the frontier.
Jim Beckworth Was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer.
Land Speculator A land speculator is someone who buys land with the sole intention of selling it on for a profit.
Sana Fe Trail A trade route to the southwest United States extending about 1,287 km (800 mi) westward from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Oregon Trail A route across the central and western US used esp. 1840–60 by settlers moving west.
Mormon A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr
Brigham Young Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the western United States.
Stephen Austin Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 - December 27, 1836), known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States.
Tejano A Mexican-American inhabitant of southern Texas.
Antonio Lopéz de Santa Anna Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)
Sam Houston Samuel Houston, known as Sam Houston (March 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863), was a 19th-century American statesman, politician, and soldier.
William Travis William Barret Travis (August 9, 1809 - March 6, 1836) was a 19th century American lawyer and soldier.
Juan Sequin Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (October 27, 1806 - August 27, 1890) was a Tejano hero of the Texas Revolution, a Texas Senator, Mayor, Judge, and Justice of the Peace.
Battle of the Alamo 19th century battle and thirteen day siege, San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was a tactical defeat in which all Texan defenders died, but a strategic victory in that it allowed the Texan forces to regroup for the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.
Lone Star Republic The Republic of Texas was an independent state in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.
James K. Polk James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849).
Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Zachary Taylor Taylor: 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850).
Baer Flag Revolt The California Republic, also called the Bear Flag Republic, is the name used for a revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California settlers on June 14, 1846.
Winfield Scott United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866).
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Agreement that ended the Mexican-American War.
Mexican Cession The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S.
Forty-Niner A miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849.
Californio Californio (historic and regional Spanish for "Californian") is a term used to identify a Californian of Latin American descent.
Mariano Vallejo Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 - 18 January 1890) was a Californian military commander, politician, and rancher.
John Sutter John Augustus Sutter (February 15, 1803 - June 18, 1880) was a Swiss-American pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush.
James Marshall Discovered gold in California in 1848.
California Gold Rush The rush of thousands of Americans to California in 1849 after gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill.
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