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34 Cards in this Set
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Tejanos
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Native Mexicans who lived in Texas.
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Impresarios
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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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Assumed the grant and established a colony on the gulf coast of Texas that same year.
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Antonia López de Santa Anna
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He established dictatorial control over the Mexican government. A general.
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Texas Revolution
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A full scale rebellion against the Mexican military for control of Texas.
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Sam Houston
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The commander of the Texas army force a force of about 900 Texans against general Santa Anna.
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Battle of San Jacinto
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A battle that resulted in Santa Anna being captured.
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Juan Seguín
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A leading Tejano figure in 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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A general who was ordered by Polk who led troops to move into the disputed region.
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John Slidell
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A Louisiana lawyer and politician who was sent to Mexico City in late 1845.
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Stephen Kearny
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A Brigadier General who led an army that occupied Santa Fe and seized control of New Mexico.
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John C. Frémont
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A U.S. army officer and explorer who had headed an expedition into California in 1845 and led the revolt against Mexico.
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Bear Flag Revolt
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An uprising led by Frémont to throw off Mexican rule in California.
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Winfield Scott
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A general who led the siege of Mexico City.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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A treaty signed in 1848 that ended the war.
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Mexican Cession
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A surrender of not only Texas but also Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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Gadsden Purchase
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It was a purchase that the United States made to acquire parts of the 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 South Texas who headed a rebellion of Mexican-Americans in the South West.
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William Becknell
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A merchant who turned to Mexico for new markets.
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The Santa Fe Trail
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A 780 mile long trail that merchants traded along.
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Mountain Men
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Fur traders
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William Ashley
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He developed the rendezvous system
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Rendezvous System
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Developed by William Ashely it was 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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Marcus Whitman
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A fellow missionary with Whitman who ended up marrying her.
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The Donner Party
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A group of pioneers who broke off of the trail and became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-47.
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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It said that each nation at the conference agreed to remain in a defined territory pledged not to attack settler 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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A leader of a Mormon group that brought thousands to the Mexican territory of Utah.
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Californios
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The first Spanish settlers and their descendants in California.
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Augustus Sutter
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A Swiss adventurer who acquired a huge land grant from Mexico in 1839.
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The California Trail
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A trail that forked off of the Oregon trail near the southernmost point on the Snake River.
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James W. Marshall
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One of Sutter's employees who detected flakes of heavy yellow metal at the bottom of a wooden canal used to divert water. GOLD
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Forty Niners
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The miners who came to California in 1849 after gold was found.
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