Chapter 14- Expansion to the Pacific Flashcards

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1836

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Texas war for independence

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Austin

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Established Texas

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Anna

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Mexican dictator

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Travis

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Commander of Alamo

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Battle cry of texans

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“Remember the Alamo”

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Battle of jan jacinto

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Houston won victory

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Plebiscite

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Peoples will by direct vote

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Hudson’s bay company

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Fur trade

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Lee

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Established oregon territory

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Fort Vancouver

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Where lee preached his first sermon

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Whitman

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Medical missionary

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Spalding

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First white women to travel west of the Rockies

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“Great migration”

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A thousand settlers made it safety to oregon

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Clay

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Whig candidate in presidential election of 1844

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Polk

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Won president election

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Slidell

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Special envoy that Polk sent to Mexico

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Taylor

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“Old rough & ready”

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New England

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Opposed mexican war

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Battle of buena vista

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“Old rough and ready” won

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1846-1848

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Years of mexican war

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Guadalupe hidalgo

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Treaty that ended the war

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Mexican cession

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Half million square miles granted by Mexico to U.S.

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Sitter

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Owner of the sawmill

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1849

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California gold rush

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Forty niners

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Gold seekers in California

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Gadsden

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United States minister to mexican in 1853

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Gadsden purchase

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United States paid Mexico $10 million dollars for land