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Ch. 13 Vocab Link
Ch. 13 Vocabulary JX
Question | Answer |
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A mountain man who lead an expedition to find a route through the Rocky Mountains when a grizzly bear attacked. | Jedediah Smith |
Daring fur trappers and explorers who opened up the West by discovering the best trails through the Rockies. | mountain men |
A mountain man who became famous as rugged loners because of his adventures. | Jim Beckwourth |
People who bought huge areas of land. | land speculator |
Led from Missouri to Santa Fe used to send hardware, cloth and china for the capital of the Mexican province of New Mexico. | Santa Fe Trail |
Ran from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon Territory; hundreds of settlers migratd west on this. | Oregon Trail |
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who settled in Utah. | Mormons |
The next Mormon leader after Smith who moved his people out of the U.S. | Brigham Young |
Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. | Stephen Austin |
People of Spanish heritage who consider Texas their home. | Tejano |
A General who was the Mexican president. | Antonio López de Santa Anna |
The only man at the meeting, deciding what to do about Santa Anna's troops, with military experience. | Sam Houston |
Led a small force including famous frontiersmen (Davy Crockett/ Jim Bowie) at the Alamo. | William Travis |
Led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt. | Juan Seguín |
Santa Anna's troops attacking the Alamo and Travis not giving up on defending. Santa Anna won, but it showed how determined the Texans were. | Battle of the Alamo |
A nickname given to the proclaimed Texas as an independent nation. | Lone Star Republic |
A Democrat nominated for president in 1844. | James K. Polk |
Suggested that expansion was not only good but bound to happen. | manifest destiny |
A General ordered to station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. | Zachary Taylor |
When Americans led by the explorer John C. Frémont rebelled againest Mexican rule in California. | Bear Flag Revolt |
A General who led a second force, to fight Mexico, which landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico City. | Winfield Scott |
Officially ended the war between the U.S. and Mexico fighting over Texas. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Mexico ceded a vast region including present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. | Mexican Cession |
Someone who went to California to find gold. | forty-niner |
Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californios |
An important Californio who was a member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land. | Mariano Vallejo |
A Swiss imigrant who persuaded the Mexico governor to grant him 50,000 acres of land. | John Sutter |
A carpenter who Sutter sent to build a sawmill on the nearby American River. | James Marshall |
Marshall's news of finding gold which spread quickly making people from all over California to race to the American River. | California gold rush |