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America's first multi-millionaire Establishes American Fur Company
Bought from mountain men |
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Fur trappers
In Rockies from 1810-1840
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2,000 mile trail from Missouri to Oregon
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| Path to the west used mostly for trading |
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| Followed Joseph Smith. Religious group |
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| Smith's successor. Became head of Mormon Church and moved it to Utah |
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| Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
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| Led a rebellion against Spanish government hoping for freedom. |
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| Mix of Native American and Mexicans |
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| Agents hired by Mexican government to bring settlers to Texas |
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| started a colony on the lower Colorado River. Empresario |
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| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
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| Mexican political leader. Monarch |
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| Abandoned mission that was a battle site in the Texas Revolution |
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| Fought on April 21, 1836, last battle of texas revolution gaining freedom from mexico. Downfall of Santa Anna |
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| The idea of settling all land from "sea to shining sea" |
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| Former governor of tennessee, won election of 1844. Ran against Henry Clay from the Whig party |
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| Name given to early Californian Settlers |
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| 1846, people made a homemade flag with a bear and star on it to symbolize California's independence |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| A.K.A Mexican cession. Turned over much of mexico's northern territory to the USA |
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| Purchase of southern parts of arizona and new mexico from mexico |
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| Owner of land where gold rush was first found. First utopian owner |
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| Group of travelers who got lost and reverted to cannibalism. Only 45 of 87 people survived |
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| people who went to get rich of the gold rush in 1849 |
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| Used tools to wash gold out of sediment |
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| The legal rights to using a body of water |
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| The practice of having more than one wife |
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| A lightweight sway back covered wagon |
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| An opening between mountains |
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| A yearly trade meeting of mountain men |
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| Texans of Mexican Hertitage |
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| Expanding the nation beyond it's existing borders |
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| Government land gifts from Mexican government to rancheros to entice settlement |
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| Citizens who take law enforcement into their own hands |
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| The land that forms the farthest extent of a nation's settled regions |
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| To leave one country for another. |
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| Fully revealed without vagueness |
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| A basic part of an individual's surroundings |
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| Unfriendly; intending to do harm |
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| Plan or course of action as pursued by the government |
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