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10 Cards in this Set
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New Mexico Territory |
huge region in the Southwest owned y Mexico in the 1800s |
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Sante Fe trail |
to add on or take over. |
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vaquero |
Spanish or Mexican cowhand |
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Manifest destiny |
1800s belief that Americans has the right to spread across the continet |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
n 1848 treaty in which Mexico gave up California and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million. |
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Gadsen Purchase |
Strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853.
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self-sufficient |
Producing; enough for ones own needs. |
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Bear flag Republic |
the nickname for Californi, an independent republic June 14, 1846. |
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cede |
to give up. |
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Mexican Cession |
Mexico gave the US California, and New Mexico, in return the US agreed to respect the rights of spanish speaking people in this area. |
