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| Sacajawea | Lewis and Clark's shoshone guide through the West |
| Lewis and Clark | sent by President Jefferson to explore the land of the Louisiansa Purchase and to look for the fable Northwest Passage |
| Zebulon Pike | lead a government sponsored exploration into what is present day Colorado |
| Moses and Stephen Austin | leaders of American settlers into Spain under the original agreement |
| terms of the agreement for American moving into Spanish Texas | obey the laws of Spain/Mexico and convert to the Catholic Religion |
| William Travis | leader of the American at the Alamo |
| Jim Bowie | famous frontiersman;killed fighting at the Alamo |
| David Crocket | famous frontiersman; killed fighting at the Alamo |
| Battle of Goliod | victory for the Mexican forces in the Texas war. American prisoners were all killed at the end of the battle |
| Battle of San Jacinto | final victory of Americans in the Texas war; Mexican General Santa Anna captured |
| James K. Polk | a protege of Andrew Jackson; "little hickory" ; led America into the Mexican War |
| General Santa Anna | general of Mexican forces during the Texas War and President of Mexico during the Mexican War |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief the United States had the God-given right to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
| What Americans believed justified Manifest Destiny | Religion, Industriousness, our Democracy |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson buy what is now the central part of the United States from France for 15 million dollars |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | treaty that ended the Mexican War |
| terms of the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | U.S pays Mexico 15 million dollars; agrees to pay almost three million dollars in debt of Mexico ; takes land known as the Mexican cession; agrees to respect the rights of the Mexican people living in the territory at the time of the takeover |
| mountain man | solitary fur trappers in the West; as they trapped, they discovered many of the landforms and passages through the west; some would later assist U.S. gov't expeditions into the region |
| rendezvous | summer gatherings of the mountain men to socialize and trade furs |
| continental divide | rigdge of the Rocky Mountains that divide the flow of waters from the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans |
| expansionist | a person who believed in Manifest Destiny |
| Zachary Taylor | American general in the Mexican War; future President of the United States |
| buffer zone | an area that keeps two opposing sides away from direct contat with each other; what Spain hoped Texas would be against the United States |
| annex | to make part of your country |
