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36 Cards in this Set
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Manifest Destiny
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Belief that God intended to expand the United States westward
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Tejanos
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Native Mexicans who lived in Texas
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Stephen F. Austin
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Established a colony on the golf coast of Texas
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Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Established dictatorial control over Mexican government
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Texas Revolution
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Isolated clashes with the Mexican military that quickly grew into a full-scale rebellion.
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Sam Houston
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Commander of the Texas army, a force of approximately 900 rebels
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Battle of San Jacinto
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When Texans tore through Mexican lines, killing some 630 Mexican troops and taking Santa Anna prisoner
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Juan Seguín
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Leading Tejano figure in the Texas Revolution
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James K Polk
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A former governor of Tennessee
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Zachary Taylor
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General who led troops
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John Slidell
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Louisiana lawyer and politician
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Stephen Kearny
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Brigadier general
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John C. Frémont
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U.S. Army officer and explorer who headed an expedition into California in 1845
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Bear Flag Revolt
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California was an independent republic and raised a flag with the image of a grizzly bear painted on it. The glag fave the uprising its name.
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Winfield Scott
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General who led some 10,000 US soldiers and captured a fortified castle in the city of Veracruz on the Golf of Mexico in March 1847
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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In February 1848 it ended the war
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Mexican Session
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Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and surrendered a vast territory known as Mexican Session
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Gadsden Purchase
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With this the US acquired parts of present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico
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Juan Cortina
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A member of a prominent Tejano family in in the southwest
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William Becknell
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He made huge profits trading his merchandise for furs, livestock and silver. Encouraged people to follow the Santa Fe Trail
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Santa Fe Trail
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780-mile-long trail
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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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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
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One of the early Protestant missionaries in Oregon Country
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Oregon Trail
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This route followed the Platte River across the great plains to the Rockies
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Each nation at the conference agreed to remain in a defined territory, pledged to to attack settlers moving west, and allowed the US government to build roads and forts in its territory
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Brigham Young
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Led thousands of Mormons to migrate to the Mexican territory of Utah in 1847
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Californios
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First Spanish settlers and their descendants
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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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California Trail
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This trail forked off the Oregon Trail near the southernmost point on the Snake River
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James W. Marshall
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Detected flakes of heavy yellow metal t the bottom of a wooden canal used to divert water from the American River
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Forty-niners
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Gold seekers who traveled to California during the gold rush
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Empresarios
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People who agreed to recruit and take responsibility for new settlers
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Texas Revolution
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Revolt against Mexico by American settlers and Tejanos in Texas
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The Donner Party
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Group of travelers to Califronia who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter; some 42 members of the party died
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