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Ch.13 Vocab. SA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a mountain man that led an expedition and found the route through the Rocky Mountains. | Jedediah Smith |
| daring fur trappers and explorers that opened up the West by finding trails through the Rockies. | mountain men |
| a mountain man. | Jim Beckwourth |
| people who bought huge areas of land, hoping the prices would go up, and when it did, they divided the land into smaller sections and sold them. | land speculators |
| goes from Missouri to Santa Fe. | Santa Fe Trail |
| ran from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Territory. | Oregon Trail |
| settled Utah and were a religious group. | Mormons |
| next Mormon leader that led them to Utah. | Brigham Young |
| found a colony in Spanish Texas. | Stephen Austin |
| people of Spanish heritage who consider Texas their home. | Tejanos |
| a general who was the Mexican president. | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| took command of the Texas army. | Sam Houston |
| led volunteers to the Alamo. | William Travis |
| led a band of Tejanos to the Alamo. | Juan Seguin |
| the Mexicans won. | Battle of the Alamo |
| nickname that said Texas was an independent nation. | Lone Star Republic |
| governor of Tennessee who was a member of Texas became the next president and tried to find ways to expand the country. | James K. Polk |
| said that expansion was not only good but was bound to happen no matter what. | manifest destiny |
| a general that stationed troops on the northern bank of the Rio Grande and won the Battle of Buena Vista. | Zachary Taylor |
| a rebellion led by Fremont against Mexican rule in which America got control of all of California. | Bear Flag Revolt |
| a general that captured Mexico City. | Winfield Scott |
| in 1848, a treaty was made in which Mexico would recognize Texas as part of the U.S. and the Rio Grande as the border. | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| someone who went to California to find gold. | forty-niner |
| settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. | Californios |
| a Californio who owned 250,000 acres of land. | Mariano Vallejo |
| a Swiss immigrant who pursuaded the Mexican govornor to grant him 50,000 acres of land in the Sacramento Valley. | John Sutter |
| a carpenter who had found gold on Sutter's land. | James Marshall |
| people raced to the American River after hearing news of Marshall's discovery. | California Gold Rush |
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