| A | B |
|---|
| annexation | adding a state |
| rancheros | weathy ranchers |
| rancho | ranches from the mexican government |
| presidios | forts |
| empresario | business people who brought in settlers |
| Goliad | Texas town where 350 texans were killed by Mexican troops |
| Alamo | San Antonio Fort where 187 Texans died fighting for independance |
| Republic of Texas | Country formed after Texas declared independace of Mexico |
| San Jacinto | Texas town where the defeat of Santa Anna forces led to Texas independance |
| manifest destiny | belief that the future of the U.S. was to extend boundries to the ocean |
| Willamette Valley | Fertile area in Oregon wheremissionaries began a settlement |
| Oregon Trail | Route followed by pioneers to the Northwest |
| Rio Grande | "Great River" forms the border between texas and mexico |
| Nueces River | Texas River Mexicans claimed was the boundry between mexico and texas |
| Bear Flag Revolt | Defeat of Mexican forces in California by American settlers |
| Republic of California | Name of Californa after it won it's independance from Mexico |
| Battle of Buena Vista | General Taylor's victory in northern mexico |
| Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, Puelad | mexican towns where americans won important battles |
| Mexico City | Capitol of Mexico where mexican forces surrendered to americans |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | agreement that ended Mexican war and arrabged the sale of territory to the U.S. |
| Mormons | religious group founded by Joseph Smith |
| Nauvoo | city in Illinois settled by mormons |
| Salt Lake City | where mormons settled |
| Mormon Trail | route to Utah used by Mormon pioneers |
| Law of Riparian Rights | property owners that have land bordering water have a right to steady flow of water |
| Law of Prior Appropriation | law that gives rights to wter use to the first person uses it for farming,mining,manufacturing |
| Gold Rush | 80,000 miners came to California looking for gold |
| Forty-Niners | Nickname for a miner |
| stake a claim | to declare ownership of an area by marking it with a woden stake |
| mining camps | village formed by miners |
| Nergro Hill | Were 2 african americans discovered gold |
| ghost towns | abandoned mining town |
| free state | State that does NOT allow slavery |
| slave state | state that allows slavery |
| Missouri Compromise | Allowed Missouri to become a slave state - 36 30'open to slavery |
| Maine | Free State to keeep balance of slave and free states in congress |
| popular sovereignty | allowed settlers to decide to have slavery in their territory |
| Free-Soil party | Democrats opposed to popular sovereignty |
| Wilmont Proviso | failed proposal to stop slavery in land gained by Mexico |
| secede | State leaving the union |
| compromise of 1850 | ended conflict between free and slave states |
