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10 Cards in this Set
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Manifest Destiny
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idea that the United States should control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
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Oregon Trail
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the main route the pioneer traveled out West across the Great Plains and through the Rocky Mountains
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Wagon Trains
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the way that most pioneers traveled west
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Santa Anna
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Mexican president who tried to keep Texas and California for Mexico
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Alamo
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an old mission turned into a fort where the Spanish beat the Americans
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Gold
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the main reason people called the "fortyniners" moved to California
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Mormons
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religious group that moved to Utah
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Sam Houston
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president of Texas
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Joseph Smith
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founder of the Mormon church
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Levi Strauss
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made and sold sturdy pants made of denim to miners
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