Chapter 9: US Westward Expansion

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Land Grant

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The gift of public land to an individual or organization

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Stephen F. Austin

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Man who led some of the first several Americans west along the Brazos River

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Antonio Lopez De Santa Ana

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He suspended the 1824 Mexican constitution and imprisoned Austin for inciting revolution , killed everyone in The Alamo

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James K. Polk

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Was a US president who urged war with Mexico, mainly for land and economic gain.

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Zachary Taylor

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He was Polk’s general, and he was supposed to march to Rio Grande and block the river in the war.

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Stephen Kearny

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He was Polk’s Colonel. Polk ordered Kearny to march west, from Kansas to Santa Fe…. Across the desert.

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Republic of California

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Because he wandered across this big desert from Kansas to Santa Fe, Kearny stumbled across California and loudly proclaimed that it as the Republic of California

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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It was when Mexico signed a treaty with us: they agreed on the Rio Grande border of Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States.

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Gadsden Purchase

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This established the current borders of the lower 48 states.

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forty-niners

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They were prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the Gold Rush, these people mainly being from Asia, South America, and Europe

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gold rush

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This was when there was lots of gold up in California and everyone traveled west thinking they could strike it rich.