Mr H chapter 15
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- Forty-niners
- the name given to the people who went to California seeking gold
- Winfield Scott
- took over command of American troops from Zachary Taylor
- Califormia Trail
- a trail that branches off the Oregon Trail that settlers used to travel west
- Sutter's Fort
- A colony near the Sacramento River
- Mormon Trail
- the route thousands of Mormons took to what is now called Salt Lake City
- Santa Fe Trail
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-a trail used primarily by profit seeking traders
-ran from Independance Missouri to what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico - Donner party
- a group of families who had many members die because they got lost traveling west
- Sam Houston
- a Texan leader who led the Texans to victory at San Antonio and at the Battle of San Jacinto
- Battle of Goliad
- Texans were defeated and many of the soilders captured were executed
- Mountain Men
- fur traders and trappers who traveled to the Rockies and beyond
- annex
- to take control of
- Republic of Texas
- the new country that was formed as a result of the Texas Revolution
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Houston defeated Santa Anna and forced him to sign a treaty recognizing Texas
- Treaty ofGuadalupe Hidalgo
- much of Mexico's northern territory was ceded as a result of this treaty
- empresarios
- agents who received large land grants in reutrn form bringing families to Texas
- Oregon Trail
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-a trail that many pioneers took west
-began in Independence Missouri - James Polk
- 11th President of the United States
- Mexican Cession
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-the size of the United States increased 25 percent
-we paid Mexico 15 million - Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
- two missionaries that were amond the first settlers in the Oregon Territory
- Gadsden Purchase
- for 10 million the United States purchased the southern parts of what is now Arizona and New Mexico
- Henry David Thoreau
- an antislavery advocate who went to jail rather then paying taxes to support the Mexican War
- Joseph Smith
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-founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- California Gold Rush
- a time period in which large numbers of people went to California seeking gold
- Rendezvous
- a meeting where mountain men and American Indians would meet trappers to sell fur
- Brigham Young
- a leader of the Mormon Church who decided to move them to what is now known as Utah
- Mormons
- the names of the followers of Joseph Smith
- Tejanos
- settlers of Spanish decent living in what is now southern texas
- Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
- led a revolt against the Spainish in Mexico
- Alamo
- an old Spanish Mission were Texans heroically fought the Mexans but were eventually defeated
- Stephen F. Austin
- encouraged Texans to take up arms against Mexico
- William Travis and Jim Bowie
- led the group of Texans that occupied the Alamo
- General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- the Mexican leader
- Californios
- a name givin for American Indians, Mexicans, and former Spanish Colonists who settled the California area
- Bear Flag Revolt
- settlers in California delcared thier Independance from Mexica
- Prospect
- search for gold
- Manifest Destiny
- the view that the United States had a special mission to expand westward