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gold rush, invasion of new mexico, etc.
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History
8th Grade
06/03/2008

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laws of mercantilism
Definition
any manufactured goods purchased by mexicans were supposed to come from Spain.
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Fr. Miguel Hidalgo
Definition
priest from Dolores, Mexico who encouraged people to improve themselves by making some of the goods they needed themselves.  Rebelled against Spain, was captured and executed.
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Grito de Dolores
Definition
Hidalgo's speech, first call for revolt against Spain.
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father of Mexican Independence
Definition

Hidalgo's nickname

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Californios
Definition
people who lived in CA and had Spanish ancestors
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Tejanos
Definition
Mexicans living in Texas, became rich by rounding up cattle and killing them for their hides.
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Augustin de Iturbide
Definition
took up the cause of Mexican Independence, made himself emperor, revolt broke out.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Definition
led revolt against Iturbide, then ruled Mexico himself
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William Becknell

Definition
trader from Missouri who headed to Mexico with goods, first to carry his goods in Conestoga Wagons
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father of the Santa Fe trail
Definition
Becknell's nickname
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vaqueros
Definition
cowboys who did the work on Tejano ranches
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Moses Austin
Definition

American who got permission from Spanish to settle in Texas, and received a large land grant from the Spanish gov, but died before he could relocate.

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Stephen Austin
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son of Moses Austin, who advocated peaceful change for Texas, and he also got Pres. Santa Anna to lift restrictions on immigrants.
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Sam Houston
Definition
Virginian who lived with the Cherokee Indians, moved to Texas, and found the region in turmoil.
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William B. Travis
Definition
leader of the Alamo
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Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
Definition

famous frontiersmen who were in the Alamo

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James W. Fannin
Definition
commander of the Texans at Goliad
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Battle of the Alamo
Definition
Santa Anna disregarded all of the laws and rights of the people, people rebelled.
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Susanna Dickinson
Definition
survivor of the Alamo, sent by Santa Anna to deliver a message to Houston, saying that any further rebellion would be handled the same way.
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William H. Ashley
Definition
head of a fur-trading company, put an ad in the paper because he wanted 100 men to go up a river to work as mountain men.
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mountain men
Definition
people who would go to Mississippi to trap fur for 2-3 yrs.
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Battle of San Jacinto
Definition

Mexicans were defeated, Santa Anna was captured, Texas won its Independence, Sam Houston became leader of Texas.

 

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annexed
Definition
added to the Union
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Anson Jones
Definition
opposed the idea of Texas being annexed, Houston's successor
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Jedediah Smith
Definition
responded to Ashley's ad, trapped and traded furs in Rocky Mtns, found South Pass
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South Pass
Definition
in the Rockies, was lower and wider, wagons could pass through, the route for thousands of as they headed west.
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Oregon Country
Definition
claimed by both Britain and US, was a vast section of the Northwest
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Jason Lee
Definition
missionary sento to Oregon, settled in Willamette Valley, set up missions like those of the Spanish, tried to teach Indians white ways
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Oregon Trail
Definition
started in Independence, Missouri, to Columbia River, route for emigrants
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Donner Party
Definition
group led by George Donner, got trapped on route through Sierra Nevada, some went to get help, others survived by eating human flesh.
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Brigham Young
Definition
led wagon train on Oregon Trail, full of mormons who sought a new place to worship and live.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Definition
church that the mormons belonged to, founded by Joseph Smith
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Great Migration
Definition
mormons headed for Utah, built Salt Lake City, ere the first Anglo Americans to cooperate in the use of water
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John McLoughlin
Definition
manager of the Hudson Bay Company of Canada, respected by Indians, called White Eagle
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Methodist missionaries
Definition
first white americans to head west
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James K. Polk
Definition
advocated by Jackson for Pres., in favor of annexing Texas, called for reoccupation of Oregon
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manifest destiny
Definition
the taking of California, Oregon and Texas, became government policy
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Zachary Taylor
Definition
ordered by Polk to take troops to Rio Grande, Polk's plan was to seize New Mexico and California.
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Stephen Kearney
Definition
led forces to Mexico, took Santa Fe and all of New Mexico.
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John C. Fremont
Definition
led group to a rebellion against Mexican authority, seized and arrested Mariano G. Vallejo (a leader of Mexico)
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Bear flag republic
Definition
nickname of california after the Bear Flag rebellion, when a flag was created.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Definition
ended Mexican War, Mexico got Rio Grande and Us got Texas
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Mexican Cession
Definition
part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in which Mexico ceded a huge part of land between Texas and the Pacific coast to the US
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Gasden Purchase
Definition
deal in which Mexico sold the US a strip of land across present day Arizona and New Mexico, completed the southwestern boundary of the US
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John Sutter
Definition
came to CA and got permission from the Mexican governer to set up a colony on the American River, but he had to leave because James Marshall discovered gold.
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