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| a fur trapper or explorer who opened up the west by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mountains. |
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| a person who buys huge areas of land for a low price and them sells off small sections of it at high prices. |
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| A trail that began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe New Mexico. |
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| a trail that ran westward from Independence, Missouri to the Oregon territory. |
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| a member of a church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. |
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| in 1836, Texans defended a church against the Mexican army, all but five Texans were killed(183 killed). |
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| A person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home. |
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| The nickname of the republic of Texas, given in 1836. |
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| the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| the 1846 rebellion by Americans against Mexican rule in California. |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| The 1848 treaty ending the US war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly 1/2 of it's land to the United States. |
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| A vast region given up by Mexico after the war with Mexico; it included the present day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. |
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| a person who went to California to find gold starting in 1849. |
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| Settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent. |
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| in 1849, large numbers of people moved to California because gold had been discovered there. |
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