History Chapter 14-15
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- Tejanos
- people of Mexican heritage who consider Texas their home
- prairie schooner
- lightweight, covered wagon
- What was the problem with annexing Texas?
- US recognized Texas as a Independent Republic
- What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?
- it started the womans rights movement
- vigilante
- law enforcer who acted outside the law
- What happened at the Battle of San Jacinto?
- while mexicans took a nap, sam houston attacked and yelled "remember the alamo"
- Whwere did the Oregon Trail begin and end
- Independence, missouri; columbia river
- Manifest destiny
- obvious fate (US will go all the way to the pacific ocean)
- What were the causes of the mexican war
- US annexs Texas, Mexico and US break up, John Slidell was sent into Mexico (if you know anymore, let me know)
- McGuffey's Readers
- teaching the alphabet using the Bible
- forty-niner
- gold seeker who went to CA in 1849
- Mexicans gave up all CA and NM. THis is known as the _____________ ________________
- mexican cessian
- What four nations tried to take control of oregon?
- US spain britain russia
- Texas independence (year)
- 1836
- What happened at the Battle of Buena Vista?
- bloodiest battle of the Mex. war, American victory (barely)
- What term did most people use to refer to the greoup that called itself the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints?
- Mormons
- mexican war
- 1846-1848
- mexico independence
- 1821
- suffrage
- right to vote
- why did mountain men head to a meeting place called the remdezvous?
- they traded, sold furs, and wanted to have a good time
- texas annexation
- 1845
- temperence movement
- campaign against drinking
- Why did so many ghost towns come into being in CA/
- Mines ran dry. smaller towns went bust and people moved on
- rendesvous
- meeting of trappers
- What was the mountain men era?
- mountain men explored the west and found new routes. they acted as guides
- mexican cessian
- mexico ceded CA and NM
- emancipation
- freeing of enslaved person
- oregon border settled
- 1846
- underground railroad
- series of houses where conductors hid runaway enslaved people hleping them on their journey to freedom
- who persuaed the Mexican govt. to let him bring settlers to the area
- stephen austin
- What three things did it state in the treaty of guadalupe hildago?
- 1 US has Texas w/ rio grande border. 2 US has CA and NM. 3 US has to pay mexico $15 million and assume $3.25 million in debts
- emigrate
- to move
- In what event were about 350 Texans executed by Mexican firing squads?
- Goliad Massacre
- how did families travel on the oregon trail
- praire schooners
- who used the ampaign slogan "FIfty four fourty or fight"
- James Polk
- When was gold discovered in CA/
- 1848
- abolitionist
- person who wanted to end slavery
- Sutter's Mill and the discovery of gold
- John Sutter's people created a saw mill (Sutter's mill) along the American river, john marshall was the supervisor and he found gold in the river
- empressarios
- people who argreed to recruit settlers on Spanish lands
- cede
- to give up, as in a territory
- 2nd great awakening
- revival of religious faith and social feeling during the early 1800's
- What did the CA constitution prohibit?
- slavery
- what two things happened in the convention of 1818?
- northern border of LA- 49* & 10 yr joint occupation of oregon with britain
- pass
- opening through the mountains
- socialism
- political system in which property is owned collectively
- annex
- to add, as in a territory