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35 Cards in this Set
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A popular belief among Americans that God intended the U.S. to expand westward
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Manifest Destiny
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Native mexicans who lived in Texas
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Tejanos
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The son of Moses Austin that assumed the grant and established a colony on the gulf coast of Texas that same year
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Stephen F. Austin
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The president of Mexico
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Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Isolated clashes with the Mexican military that quickly grew into a full scale rebellion
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Texas Revolution
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Commander of the Texas Army
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Sam Houston
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630 mexican troops and Santa Anna was taken prisoner
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Battle of Santa Anna
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a leading tejano figure in the Texas Revolution
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Juan Seguin
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God intended the US to expand west
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Manifest destiny
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General, led troops to move into the disputed territory in Mex/US
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Zachary Taylor
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Louisiana lawyer and politician, was supposed to convince mexican officials the Rio Grande was the boundary
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John Slidell
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occupied Santa Fe and seized control of New Mexico
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Stephen Kearny
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US army officer and explorer, led revolt against Mexico over boundary
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John C. Fremont
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declared Cali was an independent republic and raised a flag with a grizzly bear on it
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Bear Flag Revolt
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led 10,000 soldiers to capture a fortified castle in the city of Veracruz
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Winfield Scott
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ended the war
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
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vast territory that mexico surrendered
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Mexican Cession
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aquired parts of present day states of Arizona and New Mexico
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Gadsden Purchase
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a member of a prominent tejano family in South Texas, headed on such rebellion
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Juan Cortina
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merchant who looked to Mexico for new markets
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William Becknell
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780 mile long trail to mexico for good merchants
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Santa Fe Trail
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fur trappers
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Mountain Men
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developed the rendezvous system
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William Ashley
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method of doing business
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rendezvous system
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route that followed the platte river across the great plains to the rockies
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Oregon Trail
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one of the early protestant missionaries in Oregon Country
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
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Narcissa's husband, missionary
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Marcus Whitman
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broke off from the Oregon Trail to head to cali, 42 members died
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Donner Party
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US had a meeting with the Great Plains indian nations to agree to no attacks
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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led thousands of Mormons to the Mexican Territory of Utah in 1847
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Brigham Young
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first spanish settlers and their descendants
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Californios
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A swiss adventurer who aquired a huge land grant from mexico in 1839
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Augustus Sutter
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trail that forked off the Oregon Trail near the southernmost point on the Snake River
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California Trail
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detected flakes of heavy yellow metal at the bottom of a wooden canal used to divert water from the American River
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James W. Marshall
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Migrants who traveled to cali through the mountain passes of the california trail
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49ers
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