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What name were Fur traders and trappers known by?
What is mountain men?
Which trail led from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico?
What is Santa Fe Trail?
What was the name of the agents that the New Mexican Army hired?
What is empresarios?
What were the named of cowboys who managed large herds of cattle and sheep?
What is vaqueros?
What was John Sutter's colony called?
What is Sutter Fort?
Who was an American merchant that created one of the largest fur businesses, the American Fur Company?
What is John Jacob Astor
Which trail followed the Platte and Sweetwater Rivers over the Plains?
What is Oregon Trail?
The battle in which Texans captured Santa Anna and he was forced into signing a treaty which gave Texas independence?
What is San Jacinto?
What was and still is New Mexico's capital?
What is Santa Fe?
What gold seeking group has the same name as a NFL Team?
What is forty-niners?
Who was a a Mexican priest who led a rebellion of 80,000 poor Indians and mestizos?
What is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?
AROUND how long did it take for families to fully travel the Oregon Trail?
What year did Texas declare there independence on Mexico?
What is 1836?
In the Gadsden Purchase how much money did the US government pay Mexico and what did the US receive in return?
What is $10 million and southern parts of what are now Arizona and New Mexico?
In 1853 how much money about was Californias yearly gold production?
What is about $60 million?
What was an abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle site in the Texas Revolution?
What is Alamo?
What where some of the items that were traded through the Santa Fe Trail?
-Only have to name one item.
What is Cloth, manufactured goods, horses, mules, silver?
What independent Texas called a republic or a county?
What is republic?
Was early California a province or a republic?
What is province?
TRUE OR FALSE
In 1849 alone, about 20,000 immigrants arrived in California not only from China but also from Europe, Mexico, and South America?
What is True?
Who was a former Tennessee governor that was chosen by the democratic party to oppose Henry Clay in the 1844 Election?
What is James K. Polk?
True or False
Did the Oregon Trail follow follow a single set path?
What is False
What 2 Countries or Nations finally recognized Texas between years of 1839-1840?
What is Britain and France?
Which person coined the term "Manifest Destiny"?
What is John O' Sullivan?
Only about 10% of gold rush immigrants were women or children?
What is False it is 5%.