Foy Ch. 11 vocab
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| mountain men | Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the United States.
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| Oregon Trail | A 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory.
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| Santa Fe Trail | An important trade trail west from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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| empresarios | Agents who were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800's.
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| Alamo | Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas that was the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836.
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| Battle of San Jacinto | The 1836 final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas.
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| manifest destiny | A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800's that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
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| vaqueros | Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses.
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| Californios | Spanish colonists in California in the 1800's.
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| Bear Flag Revolt | An 1846 revolt against Mexico by American settlers in California who declared the territory an independent republic.
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | An 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.
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| Gadsden Purchase | An 1853 U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
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| Donner party | A group of western travelers who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-47; only 45 of the party's 87 members survived.
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| forty-niners | Gold seekers who moved to California during the gold rush.
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| prospect | To search for gold.
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| placer miner | A person who mines for gold by using pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel.
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