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chap 13 vocabz
Chap 13 sg
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A fur trapper or explorer who discovered trails through the Rocky Mountains | Mountain man |
| Famous mountain man | Jedediah Smith |
| Famous mountain man | Jim Beckworth |
| A person who buys land in the hope that it will increase in value and bring in a profit | Land speculator |
| Trail from missouri to Santa Fe,New Mexico | Santa Fe Trail |
| Trail from Missouri to Oregon Territory | Oregon Trail |
| A member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | mormon |
| Mormon leader | Brigham young |
| A person of spanish heritage who considers Texas his or her home | Tejano |
| Started american colony in Texas | Stephen Austin |
| President of Mexico | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| First president of the Republic of Texas | Sam Houston |
| Army leader at the Battle of the Alamo | Juan Seguin |
| Key battle for Texan Independence | Battle of the Alamo |
| Nickname of the Texas Rebulic | Lone Star Republic |
| Belief that the United States would expand across the continent | Manifest Destiny |
| 11th president of the United States | James K. Polk |
| U.s. General in the War with Mexico | Zachary Taylor |
| Rebellion by Americans against Mexican Rule in California | Bear Flag Revolt |
| U.S. General in the War with Mexico | Winfield Scott |
| Treaty ending the war with mexico | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Vast region given up by Mexico to the United States After the War with Mexico | Mexican Cession |
| a person who went to California to find Gold | Forty-niner |
| To leave behind | Abandon |
| To attack from a hidden place | Ambush |
| To add to something else | Annex |
| To mark new trails | Blaze |
| Military troops that were trained to fight on horseback | Calvalry |
| To give up | Cede |
| A person who cheats others out of money | Con artist |
| A person who agreed to recruit settlers for the land they were given | Empresario |
| Something handed down to later generations from earlier generations | Heritage |
| Things that are bought and sold | merchandise |
| A group moving together from one place to another | Migration |
| A large disorderly crowd | mob |
| To be fortunate or successful | prosper |
| A meeting | Rendezvous |
| A form of government in which power lies with the voters | Republic |
| To cheat of money or property | Swindle |
| Army leader at the battle of the Alamo | William travis |
| A california settler of spanish or mexican descent | Californio |
| A Californio and a member of one of the oldest spanish Families in America | Mariano Vallejo |
| A california settler on whose land gold was found | John sutter |
| A carpenter who found gold Sutters Mill | James Marshall |
| Occurred when large numbers of people moved to california | California gold Rush |