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Ch 13 vocab

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a mountain man/ found a pass through the rocky mountains   Jededia Smith  
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daring fur trappers and explorers   mountain man  
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a mountain man/famous as a rugged loner   Jim Beckworth  
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bout huge areas of land   land speculator  
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led from Missouri to Santa Fe   Santa Fe Trail  
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ran from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon Territory   Oregon Trail  
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a religious group that settled in Utah   Mormon  
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a mormon leader/brought his people out of US   Brigham Young  
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founded colonies in Spanish Texas   Stephen Austin  
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people of Spanish heritage that consider Texas their home   Tejano  
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the mexican president   Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna  
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commander of the Texas army   Sam Houston  
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headed a group of volunteers at the alamo   William Travis  
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led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of the revolt   Juan Seguin  
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a battle lost by the Americans   Battle of the Alamo  
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proclaimed Texas as an independent nation   Lone Star Republic  
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president that emphasized in westward expansion   James K. Polk  
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the belief that the US was destined to stretch across the continent   manifest destiny  
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General stationed at the Rio Grande   Zachary Taylor  
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in California Americans rebelled against Mexican rule   Bear Flag Revolt  
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captured Mexico City   Winfield Scott  
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Mexico recognized that Texas was part of the US, the rio grande was the border of the two nations   Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  
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the land mexico ceded to the US after the war   Mexican Cession  
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someone who went to california to find gold   forty-niner  
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settlers of spanish or mexican descent   Californio  
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a member of one of the oldest spanish families   Mariano Vellejo  
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a swiss immigrant   John Sutter  
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discovered gold in a canal   James Marshall  
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large number of people moved to califonia where gold was found   California Gold Rush  
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