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chapter 13
westward exspanchion
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Social Studies
7th Grade
04/22/2014

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frontier
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the land that forms the furthest area from a nations settled regions
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expansion
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extending a nation beyond its existing borders
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manifest destiny
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belief that the us had the right and DUTY to exspand all the way to pasific oacean
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mountain men
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fur trappers that lived on a moutain
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rendezvous
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yearly meeting where mountain men traded furs
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Oregon fever
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mass migration from the east coast to the west coast via the Oregon trail in search of fertile land
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the Alamo
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a 12 day battle at an old Spanish mission during Texas fight for independence from mexico
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annex
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to add on
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the lone star republic
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after winning their independence from mexico Texans called their new nation the lone star republic
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the Mexican American war
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war between the us and the Mexicans
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bear flag republic
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name given to California in 1846
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treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
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1848 ended US & Mex war gave the US Mexican cession
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Mexican cession
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land given to the us in the territory of Guadalupe hidalgo included Texas new mexico Arizona Nevada Colorado and Utah
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the Gadsden purchase
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1853 us agreed to pay mexico $10 million for a strip of land in present day Arizona and new mexico
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Mormons
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the largest group of settlers to move into the Mexican cession Utah moved for religious reasons
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polygamy
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practice of having more than one wife
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sutter"s mill
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in 1848, gold was found here by James marshal soon more than 80,000 people traveled to California
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forty-niners
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person who headed to California in search of gold in 1849
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