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Ranchos
people who farm on a ranch in the south went and mexico
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Stephen Austin
Father of texas
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Santa Anna
Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War
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Tejanos
is the Spanish translation for the English word Texan, a term that refers to someone who originated from, or lives, in the State of Texas in the United States of America
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Fifty-four forty or fight
Oregon boundary dispute, 1846, Democrats claim all of Oregon Country for the United States
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Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
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nueces river
A river that flows for 315 miles (515 km) from central Texas, past Corpus Christi, into the Gulf of Mexico at Nueces Bay
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John C Calhoun
Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century
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Bear Flag Republic
the name used for a revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California settlers
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treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States (U.S.) to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War
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samuel morse
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code
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Cyrus Mccormick
United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester
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