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| Specialization | Raising one or two crops that can be sold at home and abroad |
| Capitalism | Economic system in which private businesses and indviduals control means of production and use them to earn profits |
| Entrepreneur | Businessmen who invest their own money in new industries |
| Samuel Morse | New England artist who invented the telegraph and code language |
| Telegraph | Machine that sent coded messages through a metal wire |
| Manifest Destiny | American belief that U.S. destiny was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory |
| Oregon Trail | Wagon trail that started in Missouri and ended in Oregon |
| Mormons | A religious community that played a major role in the settling of the West |
| Joseph Smith | Religious prophet who founded the Mormon religion |
| Brigham Young | Leader of Mormon Church who settled Mormons in Utah |
| Stephen F. Austin | Established a colony in Texas |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | President of Mexico who suspended Mexican constitution |
| Texas Revolution | Rebellions of Texas and Mexican that occured after the suspension of Mexican constitution |
| Alamo | Francican mission and fort; site of a 12 day battle between Texas and Mexico |
| Sam Houston | Commander in Chief of Texasn at the Alamo and founder of Texas |
| James K. Polk | U.S. President who supported Texas during the border dispute |
| Zachary Taylor | General under Polk who marhced to the Rio Grande. Future president |
| Stephen Kearny | Colonel who marched from Kansas to New Mexico to seize territories for the United State |
| Bear Flag Republic | Area of California settled by Mexicans and declared an independent republic |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty signed by U.S. and Mexico that establed the Rio Grande border and ceded NM and CA to United States. |
