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34 Cards in this Set
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Tejanos
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Native Mexicans who lived in Texas.
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Stephen F. Austin
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Established a colony on the gulf coast of Texas.
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empresarios
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People who agreed to recruit and take responsibility for new settlers.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa
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Established dictatorial control over the Mexican government.
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Texas Revolution
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This was a full scale rebellion against the Mexican Military.
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Sam Houston
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Commander of the Texas army.
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Battle of San Janinto
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In this battle they took Santa Anna prisoner, and won the battle.
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Juan Sequin
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A leading Tejano figure in the Texas Revolution.
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James K. Polk
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A former governor of Tennessee.
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Zachary Taylor
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He led troops into the disputed area.
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John Slidell
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A Louisiana lawyer and politician.
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Stephen Kearny
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He and his army seized control of New Mexico.
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John C. Fremont
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He led an expedition into California.
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Bear Flag Revolt
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This was a revolt a led against Mexican Powers, it got its name from a flag.
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Winfield Scott
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He led 10,000 soldiers during the war.
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
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This treaty officially ended the war.
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Mexican Cession
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Resulted from the treaty with Mexico. We gained Texas, the South West, and the rest of the west.
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Gadsden Purchase
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Purchased parts of present day New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico.
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Juan Cortina
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A tejano who led a rebellion in Texas.
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William Becknell
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Traveled from Missouri to New Mexico, and started the movement of other merchants to the area.
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Santa Fe Trail
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Trail that led from Missouri to New Mexico.
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mountain men
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Fur trappers that traveled to the far west.
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William Ashley
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He developed the rendezvous system.
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Rendezvous System
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A method of doing business.
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Oregon Trail
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This route followed along the Platte River, across the Great Plains and to the Rockies. It led settlers to the West.
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
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A early protestant missionary in Oregon Country.
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Marcus Whitman
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Married Narcissa, before heading West on a missionary trip.
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
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Agreement between plains indian's and U.S. that indians would not attack settlers traveling west, and U.S. would pay tribes and not invade their territory.
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Brighman Young
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He led the mass movement of mormons heading to Utah.
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Californios
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These were the first Spanish Settlers that moved to Cali.
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John Augustus Sutter
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Swiss adventurer who acquired a huge land grant from Mexico in 1839.
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James W. Marshall
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Detected flakes of heavy yellow metal at the bottom of a wooden canal used to divert water from the American River.
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Forty-Niners
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Migrants who traveled to California in 1849.
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California Trial
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This trail forked off from the Oregon Trail.
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