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| Manifest Destiny | An idea that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Stephen F. Austin | The leader of the Texas Independence movement |
| General Antonio de Santa Anna | The dictator of Mexico and military general who fought the Texans at the Battle of the Alamo |
| dictator | a person who has complete control over a government |
| Anglos and Tejanos | Texas settlers who were mad at Santa Anna and what he did to Texas |
| Alamo | an old Spanish Mission where Santa Anna's troops killed 189 defenders of the Alamo |
| Texas | only state to have been a nation |
| Santa Fe Trail | a trail between Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Oregon Trail | The trail that stretch along the South side of the Platt River and on to Oregon from Missouri |
| Morman Trail | a trail that went to Utah traveled by Mormans to allow them religious freedom |
| Brigham Young | leader of the Mormans on the Morman Trail |
| Treaty of Guadlupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up claims to southern Texas and parts of New Mexico |
| cession | giving up something |
| Gladsden Purchase | The United States purchased land from Mexico that gave us the rest of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona |
| Gold Rush | huge numbers of people came to California to find gold. |
| Forty-niners | people who rushed to California to find gold |
