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36 Cards in this Set
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Manifest destiny
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John O'Sullivan coined this phrase to express a belief among Americans that God intended the U.S. to expand westward.
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Tejanos
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Native Mexicans of Texas who stood little chance of blocking an invasion.
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Empresarios
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People who agreed to recruit and take responsibility for new settlers.
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Stephen F. Austin
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Established a colony on the gulf coast of Texas in 1821.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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Established dictatorial control over the Mexican government, which was upsetting.
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Texas Revolution
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When isolated clashes with the Mexican military quickly grew into a full-scale rebellion.
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Sam Houston
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Led a force of nearly 900 rebels, surprise attacking Santa Anna's troops.
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Battle of San Jacinto
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Where the Texans killed some 630 Mexican troops and took Santa Anna prisoner.
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Juan Seguin
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A Tejano figure in the Texas Revolution who endured discrimination suffering firsthand.
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James K. Polk
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Opposed Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
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Zachary Taylor
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General who was ordered to move into disputed regions.
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John Slidell
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A Louisiana lawyer and politician who was sent to Mexico City to negotiate with Mexico.
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Stephen Kearny
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General who led an army to occupy Santa Fe and and seized control of New Mexico.
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John C. Fremont
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U.S. army officer and explorer who had headed an expedition into California in 1845.
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Bear Flag Revolt
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On June 14, settlers declared that California was an independent republic and raised a flag with the image of a grizzly bear on it. The flag gave the uprising its name.
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Winfield Scott
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Led some 10,000 U.S. soldiers to capture a fortified castle in the city of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico in March 1847.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Treaty that ended the Mexican War.
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Mexican Cession
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The Mexicans gave up all claims to Texas and surrendered this vast territory.
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Gadsden Purchase
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The U.S. acquired parts of the present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico.
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Juan Cordina
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A member of a prominent Tejano family in South Texas, who headed such rebellions.
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William Becknell
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One of the merchants who looked to Mexico for new markets.
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Santa Fe Trail
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A 780-mile-long trail that followed west.
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Mountain men
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Fur trappers.
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William Ashley
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Developed the rendezvous system.
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Rendezvous system
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A method of doing business.
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Oregon Trail
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Route that followed the Platte river across the Great Plains and to the rockies.
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
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One of the early Protestant missionaries in Oregon Country.
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Marcus Whitman
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Fellow missionary and Narcissa Prentiss' husband.
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Donner party
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Broke off from the Oregon trail to head to California.
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Was produced by an 1851 meeting that was held near present-day Laramie, Wyoming.
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Brigham Young
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Led thousands of Mormans to migrate to the Mexican territory of Utah in 1847.
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Californios
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First Spanish settlers whose descendants were known as these.
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John Augustus Sutter
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A Swiss adventurer who acquired a huge land grant from Mexico in 1839.
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James W. Marshall
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Detected flakes of heavy yellow metal at the bottom of a wooden canal used to divert water from the American rivers.
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Forty-Niners
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Migrants were called this because in 1849, they traveled to California through the mountain passes of the California Trail.
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California Trail
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Trail that forked off the Oregon Trail near the southernmost point on the Snake River.
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