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Mountain men |
adventurous men who hiked through Oregon vast forestes , trapping animals and living off the land . |
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Rendezvous |
French word meaning get together |
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Tejanos |
Mexicans who live in Texas |
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Alamo |
old Spanish mission where the Texans retired to sontinue their fight against the Mexicans |
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Siege |
enemy forces try to capture a city, or fort, usually by surrounding or bombarding it |
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Battle of San Jancinto |
lasted only 18 minutes ; Texans won even though out numbered ; captured Santa Anna |
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Lone Star Republic |
nickname Texans gave their new nationbecause they had carried a flag with a single white star during their battles |
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Annex |
add on |
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New Mexico Territory |
huge region that included most of present-day states Arizona and New Mexico and all of Nevada and utah and onlypart of Colorado |
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Santa fe trail |
the rout Becknell took from Missouri to New Mexico Territory |
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Manifest Destiney |
name gven to the phrase stating al\the idea that the U.S> had the right and the uy to spread its rule all the way to the acific Ocean |
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Mexican War |
started over a border dspute in which the U.S. claimed the Rio Grande was the southern border o Texas |
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Bear Flag Republic |
– name northern California reels gave their new nation when declarlaring their independence from exican rule |
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Chapultepec |
a fort just outside Mexico city where the Mexican took a heroic last stand |
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Cede |
give |
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Mexican Cession |
lands of California and mew mexico thatMexico was forced to gve to the U.S. in the Treaty f Guadalupe –Hidalgo |
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Gadsden Purchase |
name given to the purchase of a stri of land in present-day Arizona |
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Mormons |
large group of settlers tomove into Mexican Cession that belongedto the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints |
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Forty-niners |
name given to the people who rushed to California to search fro gold |
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Sutters Mil |
location of fisrst gold strike in Calfornia |
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Vigilantes |
self – appointed law enforcers who dealt out punishment even though they had no legal power to do so |
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Joseph Smith |
founder of the church of Jesus Chis of latter-day saints |
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Brigham Young |
replaced Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormons ; led the Mormons to a new home in a valley between the rocky mountains and the Great Salt Lake in Utah |
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John C. Fremont |
a young American explorer who joined rebel forces commanding them to driveMexican troops out of Northern California |
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Stephen Kearny |
American general during theMexcan War ;captured Snata Fe ; took control of southern California |
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Winfield Scott |
American general uring the Mexican War ; captured of Veracruz |
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Zachary Taylor |
general sent to cross the NUecess River and set up posts in the disputed area along the Rio Grande |
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James K. Polk |
elected s Presidant in 1844 because he favored expansion |
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Junipero Serra |
a missionary who built his first mission at San Deigo |
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William Becknell |
first American to lead traders across plains to New Mexico to trade |
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William Travis |
commanded the Texans inside the Alamo during the war for Texas independence |
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Sam Houston |
commander of the army the Republic of Texas |
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
came to power in Mexico after Mexico won its indepece from Spain |
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Stephen Austin |
lead American settlers into Texas after Mexico won it independence from Spain |
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman |
missionaries who set up a mission school near the Columbia River to attempt to convert Cayuse Indians to Christianity |
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Marie Dorion |
an iowa Indian who became famous because of her survibal skils |
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James Beckwourth |
an African American who headed west from Virginia to escape slavery ;chief of crow INdias ; discovered a mountain pass hrough the Siera Nevadas |
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Jacob Astor |
a New Yorker , he founded the American Fur Company :richest man in the US at that time |
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