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Ch13 u.s history
Term | Definition |
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Jedediah Smith | Leading expedition to find a route through the rock mountain |
Mountain men | Daring fur trappers and explorers |
Jim Beckworth | A famous mountain man |
Land speculator | Person who buys a large piece of land for cheep the sells small parts of it for a lot |
Santa Fe trail | A trail that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Oregon trail | Trail that ran westward from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon territory |
Mormon | A member of a church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 |
Brigham Young | The next mormon leader moved his people out of the US |
Stephen Austin | The son of a bankrupt mine owner |
Tejanos | A person of Spanish heritage who considers Texas as his home |
Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna | Mexican president |
Sam Houston | Commander of the Texas army |
William B. Travis | Lead a troop in to the Alamo |
Juan Seguin | Lead a band 25 tejanos in support of the revolt |
Battle of the Alamo | In 1836 texans defended a church from the Mexican army about 5 lived |
Lone star republic | Nick name for the republic of Texas |
James K. Polk | Ran against clay in the presidential election |
Manifest destiny | Belief that the U.S should go from the Atlantic to the Pasific ocean |
Zachary Taylor | General in the Texas army |
Winfield Scott | General in the Texas army |
Bear flag revolt | A rebell against the Mexican creating the republic of California |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the war |
Mexican cession | The area the Mexicans gave up |
Forty-niner | A person who went to California to find gold |
Californio | Settlers of Spanish or Mexican decent |
Mariano Vallejo | A member of one of the oldest spanish family in America |
John Sutter | A Swiss immagrent that got the Mexican gov. To give him 5,000 acres of land |
James Marshal | A carpenter who built a sawmill on the American river |
California gold rush | Larg # of people moved to California because of the gold that was found |