holman chapter 12
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| Louisiana Purchase | Purchase from France in 1803 for 15 million
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| Mexican Cession | After losing war with USA, Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to USA for $15 million in 1848
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| Oregon Country | Acquired after negotiating a treaty with Great Britain in 1846
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| Mountain Men | Acted as guides for settlers crossing the Rocky Mountains.
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| Mountain Men | hunted beaver and Buffalo in the Rocky Mountains
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| Pioneers | left in early spring in order the cross the Rocky Mountains before the first snows
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| California and Mexico | annexed by USA after the Mexican-American War
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| Sam Houston | first president of the Republic of Texas
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | signed in 1848
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico was forced to cede New Mexico and California. USA paid Mexico $15 million for lands.
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | established the Rio Grande River as the southern border between Mexico and the USA
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| Bear Flag Republic | nickname for California
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| Lone Star republic | Texas
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| James K Polk | elected president in 1844 because he supported Manifest Destiny
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| Stepen Austin | leader of the Americans in Texas
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| Goiliad | famous battle in Texas where Mexican General Santa Anna killed all the Americans
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| Alamo | location of important battle between Santa Anna and 150 Americans led by Day Crockett and William Travis
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| Santa Anna | Mexican dicator defeated by Sam Houston
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| forty niners | gold seekers who migrated to California in 1849
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| Mormons | religious followers of Joseph Smith who settled in Salt Lake city, Utah
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| San Jacinto | location near present day Houston, Tx where General Santa Anna of Mexico was defeated by Sam Houston
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| Manifest Destiny | the belief that it was America's destiny to obtain all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
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| Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
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| Stephan Austin | he began to organize the small colony of Americans who settled in Texas.
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| cede | to give
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| annex | to take control of a place
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| Califorina and Texas | first belonged to Mexico
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| boomtowns | built overnight during the gold rush of California
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| Levi Strauss | a Jewish immigrant who sold gold-miners sturdy work pants
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| Causes of Mexican War | 1. border dispute over Texas 2. Manifest Destiny
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| James K Polk | elected president because he favored taking Texas and Oregon
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| Missions | religious settlements established by the Catholic Church in order to teach Indians
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| Jim Beckwourth | African-American Mountain man who established trade with Indians
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| Prairie Schooners | canvas covered wagons that settlers use to travel west. From a distance they looked like ships at sea
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| Brigham Young | led thousand of Mormons west to Utah after the Murder of Joseph Smith
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