Ch.13 Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| A mountain man who publicized the South Pass through the Rockies. | show 🗑
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| One of the fur trappers and explorers who discovered trails through the Rockies and opened the West. | show 🗑
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| show | Jim Beckwourth
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| show | land speculator
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| A trail to New Mexico (Santa Fe) from Missouri-Cimarron Cutoff was dangerous because of lack of water. | show 🗑
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| A trail to Oregon Territory from Independence, Missouri that was dangerous and people traveled in wagon trains. | show 🗑
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| show | Mormon
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| Mormon leader after 1844 murder of Joseph Smith-moved Mormons to Utah in Mexico-prospered in desert. | show 🗑
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| show | Stephen Austin
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| show | Tejano
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| The Mexican president/dictator who conducted the Mexican Army in the Texas Revolution and Mexican War (1836 and 1846). | show 🗑
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| The commander of the Texan army during the Revolution (1836)-became president of the Republic. | show 🗑
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| show | William Travis
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| show | Juan Seguin
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| show | Battle of the Alamo
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| September 1836 - Texan Republic with Sam Houston as president - annexed by U.S. in 1845 as slave state. | show 🗑
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| show | James K. Polk
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| An idea that America was destined to expand to the east coast. | show 🗑
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| A general who instigated the Mexican War and defeated Santa Anna in north Mexico. | show 🗑
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| show | Bear Flag Revolt
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| A general who landed at Veracruz and captured Mexico City in Sept. 1847. | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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| show | Mexican Cession
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| show | forty-niner
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| A settler of California of Spanish or Mexican descent. | show 🗑
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| show | Mariano Vallejo
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| A foreigner (Swiss) who received land in California in 1839 and sent James Marshall (1848) to build a sawmill on the American River. | show 🗑
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| show | James Marshall
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| show | California gold rush
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