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Chapter 11 History
Key terms
Question | Answer |
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Mountain men | Fur traders and trappers |
Oregon Trail | 2,000 mile long journey stretched from places such as Independence, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa, west into Oregon country |
Santa Fe Trail | An important path going west. It led from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
Mormons | Memmbers of JOseph Smith's church |
Impresarios | Agents |
Alamo | An abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle site in the Texas Revolution. |
Battle of San Jacinto | The Texans captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty giving Texas Independence. |
Manifest Destiny | Obvious fate, to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy. |
Vaqueros | Cowboys, managed the large heards of cattle and sheep. |
Californios | Californian colonists |
Bear flag revolt | The Americans declared California to be an Independent nation. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | US and Mexico signed this which officially ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the US. |
Gadsden Purchase | The US government paid Mexico 10 million dollars and in exchange, they recieved the southern parts of what are now Arizona and New Mexico. |
Donner Party | A group of western travellers who went to California but were stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during winter. |
Forty | niners |
Prospect | Search for gold |
Placer Minors | Used pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock or gravel. |