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| Alamo | Spanish mission in San Antonia, TX that was site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836. |
| Santa Anna | Mexican General and Dictator who led Mexican army against Texas army in the Texas Revolution. |
| Brigham Young | American religious leader who led the Mormon Church. |
| Californios | Spanish colonists in California in the 1800's. |
| Donner Party | Group of western travelers who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847. |
| Elements | Basic parts of an individual's surroundings. |
| Empresarios | Agents who were contracted by the Mexican Republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s. |
| Explicit | Fully revealed without vagueness. |
| Forty-niners | Gold-seekers who moved to California during the gold rush. |
| Gadsden Purchase | U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southeastern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico. |
| John Sutter | American pioneer who built Sutter's Fort. |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800's that the US should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| Mountain men | Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions. |
| Oregon Trail | 2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from Western Missouri to the Oregon Territory. |
| Placer miners | People who mine for gold by using pans to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock and gravel. |
| Prospect | To search for gold. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Important trade trail west from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| Stephen F. Austin | American colonizer in Texas. |
| Vequeros | Mexican cowboys in the west. |
