Vocabulary
Villages with big buildings made of dried mud.
What is a pueblo?
Built canals next to rivers and farmed in the desert.
Who are the Hohokam?
Where did the Spanish settlers come from?
Mexicans and Americans fighting over a piece of land in Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Family member who lived long ago.
What is an ancestor?
Used running water from mountain slopes to grow crops and lived in pueblos.
Who are the Mogollon?
The reasons the Spanish traveled into now Arizona.
What is God, Glory and Gold?
After the war, Mexico had to sign a treaty to end agree to the loss.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A person sent to another country to get people to join a religion.
What is a missionary?
Lived in cliffs to stay safe from attackers and started storing food.
Who are the Ancestral Puebloans?
Farming tools made of metal, animals like sheep and horses, crops like wheat.
What are things brought with the Spanish and given to the Natives?
The part of land the Mexico gave up in the treaty after the war, including most of what is now Arizona.
Settler's belief that Americans had a right to control the land to the west.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
When one group gives meat and hides from animals and in return get corn, beans and pottery.
What is trading?
Some groups worked together and shared things while other groups were attacked and fought each other.
What is the relationship between Spanish Settlers and Native Americans?
When the US bought more land from Mexico in order to build a railroad and avoid the mountains in Arizona.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?