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| Tejanos | Spanish Settlers living in present day Southern Texas |
| Empressarios | agents who agreed to bring settlers to Texas |
| Alamo | an old spanish mission |
| Battle of Goliad | Mexican victory during the Texas Revolution in which Mexican leader Atino Lopez De Santiana executed almost 400 Texas Soldiers after their surrender |
| Battle of San Jacinto | Final Battle of the Texas Revoltuion; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army in independence for Texas |
| Republic of Texas | Independent nation of Texas that lasted from 1836 until 181845, when Texas was annexed to the United States |
| annex | to control or regain territory |
| Mountain Men | fur traders that traveled the mountains and far lands |
| redezvous | an anual event held by the mountain men to trade furs and sociaize |
| Oregon Trail | a 2,000-mile trail stretching from western Missouri to Oregon territory |
| Callifornia Trail | Southern branch of the Oregon trail, which took settlers to north California |
| Donner Party | Group of travelers on the California trail who where stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter; onley 40 of the 87 members survived |
| Californios | Spanish colinists who lived in California in ths 1800s |
| Sutter's fort | Northern Callifornia colony founded by swiss immigrant John Sutter in 1839 that became a popular destination for American immigrants. |
| Santa Fe trail | trade route that went from independence Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico |
| Manifest Destiny | belief shared many americans in the mid 1800s that the united states should expand across the continet to the pacific ocean |
