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Ch 13 MR

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show Jedediah Smith  
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A fur trapper or explorer who opened up the West by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mountains   show
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show Land speculators  
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show Jim Beckwourth  
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show Santa Fe Trail  
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show Oregon Trail  
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show Mormons  
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He was the next Mormon leader, after Smith got killed moved his people out of the United States. His destination was Utah   show
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Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. He found a colony for Americans in Spanish Texas.   show
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A person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas to be home.   show
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The Mexican president that was also a general. He ordred everyine at the Alamo to be exicuted.   show
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show Sam Houston  
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He was the second was a company of 183 volunteers at the Alamo.   show
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This Tejano led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt.   show
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show Battle of the Alamo  
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show Lone Star Republic  
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show James K. Polk  
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The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.   show
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show Zachary Taylor  
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The 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California   show
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He landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland toward Mexico City. Mexico City fell to him in September 1847.   show
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The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States.   show
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A vast region given up by Mexico after the War with Mexico; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.   show
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A person who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849   show
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Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent.   show
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A member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land.   show
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He persuaded the governor to grant him 50,000 acres in the unsettled Sacramento Valley.   show
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Sutter's carpenter found gold in Califrona.   show
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show Califrona Gold Rush  
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People who leave a country   show
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People who settle in a new country   show
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show Push-Pull Factor  
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show Famine  
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show Prejudice  
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