Vocab Part 1
incorporation of a territory within the domain of a country
Annexation
to give up by treaty.
Ceded
______________________ ______________________ idea that God had bestowed the entire continent of Americans and wanted them to settle the Western Lands.
Manifest Destiny
___________________ ___ _____________________ was the most successful empresario, persuading some 1,500 American families to immigrate to Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Who won the Presidential election of 1844?
James Polk
a person delegated to represent one country to another.
Envoy
an assembly of persons who meet for a common purpose.
Convention
____________________ Country was land on the West Coast in which the United States, Britain, and Native Americans all laid claim to.
Oregon
_____________________ ____________________ former governor of Tennessee and proven military leader named Sam Houston took command for the Texas rebels.
Sam Houston
On June 14, 1846, settlers declared California independent of Mexico and renamed the region what?
Bear Flag Republic
a person who arranged for the settlement of Texas in the early 1800s.
Empresario
By the 1840s men carved out East to West trails that helped settlers travel with the most popular being the ________________________ trail.
Oregon
How did Mexico get settlers to come to Texas?
Mexico passed three colonization laws in Texas, offering cheap land to nearly anyone willing to come.
What river is the Southern Border of Mexico as a result of the Mexican American War?
Rio Grande River
Name two things Native Americans often gave emigrants on the trail West.
food and helpful information about routes, edible plants, and sources of water.
to transfer the use, possession, or control of something from church to civil authority.
Secularize
someone who settles on public land under government regulation with the hope of acquiring title to the land.
Squatters
The Treaty in which the U.S. promised 8 Native American groups that specific territories of the Great Plains would belong to them as long as they allowed settlers to pass through peacefully.
Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851
Who became the first President of Texas?
Sam Houston
What led to the start of the Mexican American War?
Taylor’s troops moving South of the Nueces River and the Mexican Army responding.
_____________ _______________ was the individual who engineered a plow with steel blades in 1837. (Hint: the color green for farming equipment)
John Deere
men on horseback who herded cattle on haciendas.
Vaqueros
a person of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
Mestizo
In the Oregon treaty, what did the United States receive and what did Great Britain receive?
U.S. received Oregon
Britain recevied a navigation route to the Colubmian River
What mistake did Mexico make that allowed the Texan army to defeat them? What did the Texan army scream?
Santa Anna gave their army the afternoon off to sleep and Texans launched an afternoon attack screaming “Remember the Alamo”
Prior to the Mexican-American war, where did Mexico believe the border was and where did the United States believe the location of the border was at?
U.S: Rio Grande River Mexico: Nueces River
Name the 7 states the U.S. received as part of the conclusion of the Mexican American War?
Arizona, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada