| A | B |
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| James Marshall | First person to discover gold in American River |
| American River | located near Sacramento, place where gold was discovered |
| Jon Sutter | own an agricultural empire near Sacramento |
| emigrant | a person who moves from one section of the country to another |
| 49er | a person who traveled west to look for gold |
| 1836 | The year Texas became independent from Mexico |
| 1849 | The year many Americans moved west to look for gold |
| 1848 | The year gold was discovered near Sutters Mill |
| 1845 | Start of the Mexican American War |
| Mountain Men | adventureres that traped furs and traded goods out west |
| Jedediah Smith | hunter who discovered the South Pass |
| South Pass | way over the Rocky Mountains that was wide enough and gradual enough for a wagon |
| Crow Indians | told Smith about the South Pass |
| Manuel Lisa | Spanish born mountain man who set up a trading post on the Missouri River |
| Adams Otis Treaty | Spain gave up rights to Oregon Territory |
| Oregon Country | Land claimed by both England and America |
| Fort Vancouver | A large trading post in Oregon Territory |
| Oregon Trail | Stretched almost 2000 miles from St. Louis to Oregon |
| Jason Lee | First missionary to settle in Oregon Territory |
| Methodists | Religious group that sent missionaries to the Oregon Territory |
| James Beckworth | African American mountain man who explored the west |
| Narcissa Whitman | Missionary who became the first white woman to travel to Oregon Territory |
| California Trail | branched off Oregon Trail to Head to Sacramento |
| Morman Trail | Branched off Oregon Trail to head to Salt Lake City |
| Salt Lake City | Center of Morman church |
| The offical name for Morman religion | Church of Latter Day Saints |
| Joseph Smith | founder of Morman religion here in United States |
| polygamy | to take more than one wife |
| Brigham Young | leader of Morman church who moved the church to Utah |
| Rules of the Morman Religion | no caffine / drinking / snmoking / tatoos / working on Sunday |
| Ran against President Polk | Henry Clay |
| President who believed in expansionism and annexing Texas | James Polk |
| expansionists | people who beleived in expanding the nations borders |
| Manifest Destiny | beleif that United States was destined to own land from Atlantic to Pacific |
| Mexicans believed thay owned land north to this river | Nueces River |
| Americans beleived that they owned land south to this river | Rio Grande |
| 49th parallel | compromise line made by Britain and US to split Oregon Territory |
| 54th parallel 40' | norhtern boundry of Oregon Territory before split with Britain |
| Zachary Taylor | American General during Mexican American War |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the Mexican American War |
| Battle of Chapultepec | Fought outside of Mexico City at the site of a Mexican military academy |
| 15 million dollars | Cost of Mexican Cession to the United States |
| 10 million dollars | cost of Gasden Purchase to the United States |
| The reason that the Gasden Purchase was made | to connect Texas to Pacific by railroad |
| boomtown | town that swelled in size almost overnight |
| Group during Gold Rush that experienced huge death through disease | Native Americans |
| Group during gold Rush that faced great prejudice | Chinese |
| The number of people who arrived in California from 1849 to 1852 | 240,000 |
| Californio | former Catholic Mexicans who remained in California after it became part of the United States |
| First state to allow married women to retain control over her property | California |
