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| used water cannons to blast hillsides and expose gold depostites. Drove rock and earth in to rivers. 1860's rivers were clogging and flooding towns and farms. |
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| mormons had set up independent state in Utah. 1850 congress thought that the mormons were becoming independent by living there. |
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| Treaty of Gualalupe Hidalgo |
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| Ended Mexican-American War, allowed hispanic people to move freely from Mexico and US. People would become US citizens and then go back to Mexico. |
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| Group of lawyers, politicians and land speculators who stole millions of acres of land from the public domian and took 80% of Mexican holdings in New Mexico. |
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| Granted any settler 160 acres to live on and care for for 5 years, had to improve land. Sparked the largest migration in world history. |
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| Land granted to colleges from government for campuses in return for promising agricultural programs. |
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| created some experimental agricultural situations that passed on info about soil, minerals and plant growth. |
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