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| Annex | Added land to, expands (like texas) |
| Battle of San Jacinto | fought on April 21, 1836 in Harris County, Texas, the decisive (having power to end) battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army, 20 minute fight |
| Battle of the Alamo | Mexican forces from the alamo an abandoned mission and fort, they lost |
| Lone Star Republic | Spain granted independence to Mexico in 1821, the land now comprising the state of Texas was very sparsely populated |
| Mormons | it was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| Mountain Man | an explorer who lives in the wilderness |
| Oregon Country | a disputed ownership region of the Pacific Northwest of North America. |
| Oregon Trail | began in 1842, organized wagon trains and it carried people to the west, following Indian Trails. Frequent trade with Natives on the rout many got sick from diseases and died. (Gathered Independence, 2000mile trip, 4-6 month, $500-1000, hard work.) |
| Santa Anna | Mexican general, revolutionist, and president |
| Santa Fe Trail | was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| Siege | a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside. |
| Texas War for Independence- | it was Texas’s war to gain independence |
| Boom town | a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity. |
| California Gold Rush | t was the discovery of gold in 1848 that lead to massive influx of prospector. This lead to a population boom and an increase of agriculture, multicultural California society. Few miners struck, John Sutter has a sawmill built near Sacramento, james Marshall discovers gold at the mill, 80000 people traveled to California in 1849, came from Europe, China, and Australia, south American, all in addition to the US. |
| Gadsden Purchase | We gained CA,UT,TX,WY,OK for 15 mil. |
| Ghost town | Where there was no activity. |
| Zachary Tyler | a general that was sent beyond Rio Grande River which led to the Mexican American War |
| Polk | wanted expansion for Texas and wanted it to become a state quicker |
| Annexation | an end in the joint US – British control of Oregon |
| Mexican War | caused by Mexico recognized Texas’ indecence & US annexation , but disagreed over Texas’ southern border. |
| Rio Grande | river that flows from south central Colorado in the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way it forms part of the Mexico–United States border. |
| La Nueces River | river in Texas about 315 miles long |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Ended the war with Mexico,Rio Grande becomes southern border, U.S pays Mexico 15 million for CA,WY,OK,TX,NM |
| Bear Flag Republic | group of American settlers launch a surprise attack on Sonoma, California, on June 14 declared California as a Republic |
| Winfield Scott | No slavery in the new land that we bought from Mexico |
| Mexican Cession | The new land that we brought, CA,TX,WY,OK,NM |
| Wilmot Proviso | Democrat, David Wilmot drafts a bill to congress, no slavery in any land acquired from Mexico, congress rejected it, again and again, eventually lead to greater rift between the North and the South |
| Sutter’s Mill | John Sutter owns a mill and found gold for the first time in CA |
| Describe the growth of Americans in Texas | It was a place where their was new land that hasn't been touched, a place where farming can take place. |
| Why did Texas declare its independence from Mexico? | it wanted to be a state. |
| How did fur traders help open up the Oregon Country for settlement? | The mountain men started up the fur trade in oregon to open up more stores and business in the new land out west. |
| Why do we “remember the Alamo!” so fondly? Is there any debate about it? | It was a rally that gort more americans to care about Texas and gaining its own independece. |
| Describe the effects of the Gold Rush on American society. (Social, demographic, and economic) | It helped the economy grow, and people from all over the world came to CA for the gold. China,Austria, free black slaves everyone came to the US |
