Unit 5 life in the West

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Lewis and Clark

• members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

• expedition

  a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

• a person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration.

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Mexican-American War

• a person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration.

• a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

• a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California

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Oregon Trail

• an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Columbia River in Oregon

• someone who rules with absolute power, often harshly

• a reason for doing something

• members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

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forty-niners

• a person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration.

• a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

• a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• the people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849

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rancho

• someone who rules with absolute power, often harshly

• the position of a person, either socially or professionally

• to encourage activity or growth

• a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

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Irrigation

• to encourage activity or growth

• a system for bringing water to farmland by artificial means, such as using a dam to trap water and ditches to channel it to fields

• Spanish-speaking people who, in the 1800s, lived in parts of the United States that previously belonged to Mexico

• status

  the position of a person, either socially or professionally

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Mexicanos

• Spanish-speaking people who, in the 1800s, lived in parts of the United States that previously belonged to Mexico

• to encourage activity or growth

• a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

• persecuted

  to cause a person or group to suffer

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Mormons

• a reason for doing something

• members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

• an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Columbia River in Oregon

• to cause a person or group to suffer

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Legacy

• a system for bringing water to farmland by artificial means, such as using a dam to trap water and ditches to channel it to fields

• the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation

• a person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration.

• a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

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Pueblo law

• members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

• a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

• a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• allowed persons and entities holding land title under Mexican law to preserve their private and public water rights

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Copper

• to encourage activity or growth

• the position of a person, either socially or professionally

• reddish material that is unusually good conductor and electricity and heat and was used for jewelry.

• a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

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Diplomacy

• the art of conducting negotiations with other countries

• the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation

• an inherited or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior

• the position of a person, either socially or professionally

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vaquero

• to encourage activity or growth

• herdsman, cowboy

• a group of people moving in an slow, orderly way

• the position of a person, either socially or professionally

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Batea

• a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

• a large pan of iron used for washing sand and gravel to recover gold

• a region of land; also, a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor

• Spanish-speaking people who, in the 1800s, lived in parts of the United States that previously belonged to Mexico

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California

• brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-48),

• a system for bringing water to farmland by artificial means, such as using a dam to trap water and ditches to channel it to fields

• done for a good reason

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manifest destiny

• a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California

• the belief that it was the United States' right and duty to spread across the North American continent

• members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830