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Chapter 8: Manifest Destiny & the Growing Nation

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Thomas Jefferson   president who purchased the Louisiana Territory  
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Napoleon   French leader who offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States  
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$15 million   price tag of the Louisiana Purchase  
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diplomacy   the art of conducting negotiations with other countries  
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Spain   European country who first colonized Florida in the 1500s  
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Florida   territory that was yielded to the United States in exchange for $5 million in settlers' claims and honoring Spain's claims to Texas  
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Stephen F. Austin   son of Spanish business owner who dreamed of starting a U.S. colony in Spanish Texas  
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Tejanos   Texans of Mexican descent  
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Santa Anna   head of Mexican government  
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Sam Houston   commander of the Texas revolutionary army  
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The Alamo   Americans in Texas rebelled against the Mexican government in which an incident in a Spanish mission that turned into a bloody battle where all Texans who fought there were killed  
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"Remember the Alamo!"   battle cry of the Texas War for Independence  
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Texas War for Independence   the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation  
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Lone Star Republic   nickname for the Republic of Texas  
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10 years   how long Texas was an independent country for  
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Manifest Destiny   belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent from coast to coast  
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Russia, Spain, Britain, and United States   four countries that claimed the Oregon Territory  
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Lewis & Clark   original explorers of the Oregon Territory  
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South Pass   path discovered by Jedediah Smith that allowed for safer passage through the Rocky Mountains to get to the Oregon Territory  
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Rio Grande River   river that Texas claimed as its border with Mexico  
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Mexican-American War   the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California  
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   Mexico agreed to give up half of its territory in exchange for $15 million from the United States and promises of protection of Mexicans living in Texas  
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Mexican Cession   present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Wyoming  
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