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Ch 13 MR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| One of the daring fur trappers and explorers known as mountain men. He found what he was looking for–a pass through the Rocky Mountains. | Jedediah Smith |
| A fur trapper or explorer who opened up the West by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mountains | Mountain men |
| A person who buys huge areas of land for a low price and then sells off small sections of it at high prices. | Land speculators |
| He became famous as rugged loners. However, they were not as independent as the legends have portrayed them. Instead, they were connected economically to the businessmen who bought their furs. | Jim Beckwourth |
| A trail that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico. | Santa Fe Trail |
| A trail that ran westward from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
| A member of a church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. | Mormons |
| He was the next Mormon leader, after Smith got killed moved his people out of the United States. His destination was Utah | Brigham Young |
| Son of a bankrupt Missouri mine owner. He found a colony for Americans in Spanish Texas. | Stephen Austin |
| A person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas to be home. | Tejanos |
| The Mexican president that was also a general. He ordred everyine at the Alamo to be exicuted. | Antonio López de Santa Anna |
| He was in command of the Texas army. He beat Santa Anna at the Battle of San jacinto, and became a Texas hero. | Sam Houston |
| He was the second was a company of 183 volunteers at the Alamo. | William Travis |
| This Tejano led a band of 25 Tejanos in support of revolt. | Juan Seguín |
| In 1836, Texans defended a church called the Alamo against the Mexican army; all but five Texans were killed. | Battle of the Alamo |
| The nickname of the republic of Texas, given in 1836. | Lone Star Republic |
| Nominated by Democrats to run against him for president in 1844 and beat Henry Clay. | James K. Polk |
| The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. | Manifest destiny |
| He station troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. On April 25, 1846, a Mexican cavalry unit crossed the Rio Grande. They ambushed an American patrol | Zachary Taylor |
| The 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California | Bear Flag Revolt |
| He landed at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and battled inland toward Mexico City. Mexico City fell to him in September 1847. | Winfield Scott |
| The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| A vast region given up by Mexico after the War with Mexico; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. | Mexican Cession |
| A person who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849 | Forty–niner |
| Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californios |
| A member of one of the oldest Spanish families in America, he owned 250,000 acres of land. | Mariano Vallejo |
| He persuaded the governor to grant him 50,000 acres in the unsettled Sacramento Valley. | John Sutter |
| Sutter's carpenter found gold in Califrona. | James Marshall |
| In 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there. | Califrona Gold Rush |
| People who leave a country | Emigrant |
| People who settle in a new country | Immigrant |
| These are the reasons people leave or come to another country | Push-Pull Factor |
| A server Food shortage | Famine |
| A negative opoion not based on fact. | Prejudice |
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