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chapter 13 vocablary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| jedediah smith | mountain man |
| mountain man | fur trappers and explorers |
| jim beckwourth | famous loner |
| land speculators | bought huge areas of land |
| santA fe trail | missouri to santa fe |
| oregon trail | independence, missouri to oregon territory |
| mormons | settled in utah and members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints |
| brigham young | moved his people to utah he was a leader |
| tejanos | spanish settlers who consider texas as their home |
| stephen austin | founder of texas |
| santa anna | president and general of mexico |
| sam houston | general of houston became president later |
| william travis | alamo leader w/ davy crockett and jim bowie |
| juan seguin | led a band of 25 tejanos for support |
| battle of the alamo | worst battle for texans |
| lone star republic | texas became its own country |
| james k. polk | president in 1836 |
| manifest destiny | westward expansion of us |
| zachary taylor | amazing general in the war w/ mexico |
| bear flag revolt | arrested commander of northern california |
| winfield scott | took control of mexico city |
| treaty of guadalupe hildalgo | mexico had to recog. tex. as part of u.s. and rio grande was border. |
| mexican cession | land that was ceded by mexico |
| 49er | californian who tried to find gold |
| cailifornios | spanish of mexican descent |
| mariano vallejo | owned 250,00 acres of land |
| john sutter | swiss immigrant who went to mexican gov. to get 50,000 acres of land |
| james marshall | found gold |
| california gold rush | occurs when a # of people move to a site where gold has been found |