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| Sam Houston | led the battle for Texas independence |
| General Santa Anna | dictator of Mexico |
| the Alamo | where Santa Anna and Sam Houston battled |
| Battle of San Jacinto | where Santa Anna surrendered to the Texans |
| Lone Star Republic | name given to Texas when they delcared independence |
| Spanish missions | where many California Indians were forced into slavery |
| President Polk | he was an expansionist |
| expansionist viewpoint | wants to expand the US to the west coast |
| Chapultepec | location of the last battle in the Mexican War |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | gave New Mexico and California to the US |
| Mexican Cession | the lands of New Mexico and California |
| Gadsden Purchase | a strip of land for which the US paid 10 million |
| Joseph Smith | started the Mormon religion |
| Mormons | believed in common land and having more than one wife |
| Brigham Young | new leader of the Mormons after Smith |
| Salt Lake City, Utah | where Young led the Mormons |
| James Marshall | discovered first Californian gold at Sutter's Mill |
| Gold Rush | when 250,000 people came to California to find gold |
| Forty-niners | name given to those who came to look for gold |
