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| any manufactured goods purchased by mexicans were supposed to come from Spain. |
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| priest from Dolores, Mexico who encouraged people to improve themselves by making some of the goods they needed themselves. Rebelled against Spain, was captured and executed. |
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| Hidalgo's speech, first call for revolt against Spain. |
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| father of Mexican Independence |
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| people who lived in CA and had Spanish ancestors |
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| Mexicans living in Texas, became rich by rounding up cattle and killing them for their hides. |
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| took up the cause of Mexican Independence, made himself emperor, revolt broke out. |
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| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
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| led revolt against Iturbide, then ruled Mexico himself |
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| trader from Missouri who headed to Mexico with goods, first to carry his goods in Conestoga Wagons |
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| father of the Santa Fe trail |
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| cowboys who did the work on Tejano ranches |
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American who got permission from Spanish to settle in Texas, and received a large land grant from the Spanish gov, but died before he could relocate. |
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| son of Moses Austin, who advocated peaceful change for Texas, and he also got Pres. Santa Anna to lift restrictions on immigrants. |
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| Virginian who lived with the Cherokee Indians, moved to Texas, and found the region in turmoil. |
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| Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett |
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famous frontiersmen who were in the Alamo |
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| commander of the Texans at Goliad |
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| Santa Anna disregarded all of the laws and rights of the people, people rebelled. |
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| survivor of the Alamo, sent by Santa Anna to deliver a message to Houston, saying that any further rebellion would be handled the same way. |
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| head of a fur-trading company, put an ad in the paper because he wanted 100 men to go up a river to work as mountain men. |
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| people who would go to Mississippi to trap fur for 2-3 yrs. |
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Mexicans were defeated, Santa Anna was captured, Texas won its Independence, Sam Houston became leader of Texas. |
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| opposed the idea of Texas being annexed, Houston's successor |
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| responded to Ashley's ad, trapped and traded furs in Rocky Mtns, found South Pass |
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| in the Rockies, was lower and wider, wagons could pass through, the route for thousands of as they headed west. |
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| claimed by both Britain and US, was a vast section of the Northwest |
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| missionary sento to Oregon, settled in Willamette Valley, set up missions like those of the Spanish, tried to teach Indians white ways |
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| started in Independence, Missouri, to Columbia River, route for emigrants |
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| group led by George Donner, got trapped on route through Sierra Nevada, some went to get help, others survived by eating human flesh. |
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| led wagon train on Oregon Trail, full of mormons who sought a new place to worship and live. |
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| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
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| church that the mormons belonged to, founded by Joseph Smith |
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| mormons headed for Utah, built Salt Lake City, ere the first Anglo Americans to cooperate in the use of water |
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| manager of the Hudson Bay Company of Canada, respected by Indians, called White Eagle |
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| first white americans to head west |
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| advocated by Jackson for Pres., in favor of annexing Texas, called for reoccupation of Oregon |
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| the taking of California, Oregon and Texas, became government policy |
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| ordered by Polk to take troops to Rio Grande, Polk's plan was to seize New Mexico and California. |
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| led forces to Mexico, took Santa Fe and all of New Mexico. |
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| led group to a rebellion against Mexican authority, seized and arrested Mariano G. Vallejo (a leader of Mexico) |
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| nickname of california after the Bear Flag rebellion, when a flag was created. |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| ended Mexican War, Mexico got Rio Grande and Us got Texas |
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| part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in which Mexico ceded a huge part of land between Texas and the Pacific coast to the US |
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| deal in which Mexico sold the US a strip of land across present day Arizona and New Mexico, completed the southwestern boundary of the US |
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| came to CA and got permission from the Mexican governer to set up a colony on the American River, but he had to leave because James Marshall discovered gold. |
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