Test on Chap. 13
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KFehrenbach on March 21, 2007
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cede | To give up land |
| Annex | To add on |
| Rendezvous | Yearly meeting where mountain men trade furs |
| Vigilante | appointed law enforcement who deals with punishment without trial |
| Britian | Nation that compromised with the U.S. for Oregon |
| James Polk | Pesident in favor of expansion-elected 1844 |
| Tread of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Tready forcing Mexico to give up New Mexico and California |
| Mountain Men | Fur Trappers who livedin western mountains |
| James Beckworth | Man who found passage through the Sierra Nevadas to California |
| Length of Oregon Trail | 2,000 miles |
| Fur | Product that made John Jacob Astor rich |
| Who were the Whitmans? | First white Americans to build homes in Oregon Country |
| Mexico | Texas belonged to ______________ in 1830 |
| Santa Anna | General who defated Americans at Alamo |
| Texas | known as the Lone Star Republic |
| Who were Morman's? | Largest group of settlers to move into the Mexican Cession |
| Where did Morman's settle? | They settled between the Rocky Mts. and the Great Salt Lake in Utah |
| Who was the Morman's leader? | Bringham Young |
| What was dicovered at Sutters Mill in 1848? | Gold |
| Where was Sutters Mill? | On the American River, north of Sacramento, California |
| What role did the Chinese play in the settlement of California? | They worked in the gold fields and farmed lands |
| Winfield Scott | American General who attacked Mexico during the Mexican War |
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