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13 Cards in this Set
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Great Migration |
a train of 120 wagons with 1k pioneers. It was the largest wagon train to ever go west |
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prairie shooners |
The name people called prairie wagons
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Bear Flag Revolt |
A revolt against the Mexicans in California that temporarily created the Republic of California
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forty-niners |
100k gold seekers that moved to California
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Battle of Jacinto |
783 Texans defeated 1500 mexicans in 18 minutes
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manifest destiny |
the idea that the US was destined to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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annexation |
to take a land and make it part of one's own country
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Mexican War |
Santa Anna killed a bunch of Texans and refused to make peace so the US invaded Mexico
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Primary Sources |
personal, eye-witness reports of past events
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Battle of Buena Vista |
4,500 guys go and defeat Santa Anna's army of 15k men. Them Mexicans sure had a terrible army
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
ended the Mexican War and All US troops were withdrawn from Mexican Soil
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Mexican Cession |
a bunch of land we got from mexico when we beat them
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Gadsden Purchase |
a bunch of land we bought from mexico that completed the southern border of the US |
