| 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 | White settlers who tried to set up California as new country |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the Mexican-American War in 1848 |
| Gadsden Purchase | $10 million for southern New Mexico and Arizona |
| Donner Party | stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| forty-niners | gold seeking migrants to California |
| prospector | Someone searching for gold |
| placer miners | used pans to wash gold out of loose rock |
| Fredonia | Small settler in Texas who started his own country |
| Alamo | Spanish misson in San Antonio Texas |
| Goliad | Texas army was slaughtered |
| Sam Houston | Military leader of Texas Army |
| Santa Anna | Dictator of Mexico |
| General Winfield Scott | Captured Mexico City |
| Steven Austin | Political leader of Texas Rebellion |
| John Deere | Invented Steel Plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented Mechanical Reaper |
| Overlander | Person moving over Great Plains to West |
| Squatter | Someone living on land illegalily |
| Mormons | Religious group moved to Utah |
| Kit Carson | Famous mountain man |
