| A | B |
|---|
| manifest destiny | obvious fate to settle from Atlantic to Pacific |
| James K. Polk | President who gained Mexican Cession and Oregon Country |
| vaqueros | Mexican cowboys |
| Californios | Mexicans who settled in California |
| Bear Flag Revolt | Americans fight to free California |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the Mexican-American War in 1848 |
| Gadsden Purchase | $10 million for southern New Mexico and Arizona |
| John Sutter | started a colony in California |
| Donner Party | stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| forty-niners | gold seeking migrants to California |
| prospect | search for gold |
| placer miners | used pans to wash gold out of loose rock |
