Santa Fe Trail

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Santa Fe Trail

• Went from Missouri into New Mexico Territory

2
Tejanos

• Mexicans who viewed Texas as their home

3
Vigilance committees

• Formed in response to the lawlessness in mining
  towns

4
The Alamo

• A mission where a small Texan force fought for
  twelve days against Santa Annas forces

5
Manifest Destiny

• Idea that it was inevitable that the U.S. would
  expand to the Pacific Ocean

6
Forty-niners

• Came to California in search of gold

7
James K. Polk

• President who was determined to get New Mexico
  and California from Mexico through war

8
Joseph Smith

• Founder of the Mormon church

9
Oregon Country

• An area between the pacific Ocean and the Rocky
  Mountains and north of California

10
Missions

• Spanish settlements built to convert Native
  Americans to Christianity and put them to work

11
Davy Crockett

• Killed at the Alamo

12
Gadsden Purchase

• Land acquisition in 1853

13
Mountain men

• Trapped for fur in the Oregon Country and adopted
  Native American ways

14
Mormons

• Settled in the great Salt Lake area in Utah

15
Sam Houston

• President of the Lone Star Republic

16
Stephen F. Austin

• A large American landowner and political leader
  in Texas

17
Texas

• Annexed by the U.S. in 1845

18
Bear Flag Republic

• Formed by Americans in Sonoma, California

19
Oregon Trail

• Followed by tens of thousands of settlers westward

20
Kit Carson

• Guided settlers westward