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What did John Jacob Astor do?
He founded a fur trading post called Astoria
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Who was the Santa Fe Trail used by?
Traders
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Who stated a colony on te lower Colorado River?
Stepen F. Austin
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Who was James Polk?
US President who promised to annex Oregon and Texas
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Who is Winfield Scott and what did he do?
Was an army general who captured Mexico City and ended the war
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Who were mountain men?
Fur traders and trappers
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Who went in search of religious freedom?
Mormons
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Who were empresarios?
Agents to bring settlers to Texas
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Who were the "Fifty-four fourty or fight!"
American Exspansionists who wanted their northern territory to expand
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What did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?
It offically ended the war and forced Mexicoto turn over much of its northern territory to US
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Who was Jim Beckwourth
Arican American fur trapper
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What is Manifest Destiny?
Obvious fate to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread to democracy?
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What is the Alamo?
An abandoned mission near Santa Antonio that became an improtant battle site in the Texas Revolution
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What was te Mexican-American war about
The dispute over the border
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Who are Californios?
Some 3,200 colonists living in California who felt little connection to their faraway government
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What was the 2,000-mile route that led from missouri to the west called
The Oregon Trail
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Waht did Joseph Smith do?
He founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in NY
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Where did the Texans capture and force him to sign a treaty giving Texas its independance?
At the Battle of San Jacinto
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The Mexican government did what?
They disbandedthe mission System and gave land grants to wealthy settlers
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Who are Vaqueros?
Cowboys that managedthe large herds of cattle and sheep
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The Oregon Trail followed _____ and _____ rivers over the Pkains to te Rocky mountains
The Platte and Sweetwater rivers
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Who became head of the Mormon Church and led Mormons to Utah?
Brigham Young
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Who was the hero of the new independent nation of Texas?
Sam Houston
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In what did the Americans declare CA to be an independent nation? (Seized town of Sonoma
The Bear Flag Revolt
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who am i?
Rachel M. Harvey
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