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Invented the metal plow

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John Deere

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Mexicans in Texas were called this

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Tejanos

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Invented the mechanical reaper

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Cyrus McCormick

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Americans in Texas called themselves

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Texians

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Name one mountain man

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Kit Carson - Jim Bridger

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Name three east to west trails

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Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, and California Trail

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The Alamo is located in what city?

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San Antonio

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To give up or give away

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Cede

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1st rendezvous held here

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Henry Forks, Wyoming

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Wagons used by settlers moving west

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Conestoga

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People who settled on land they didn’t own

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Squatters

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Santa Anna was deleted by Houston in this place

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San Jacinto

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Settlers moving west said that prairie scooners looked like ships sailing on…

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A sea of grass

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Name of California before it became a state

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Bear Flag Republic

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First empresario

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Stephen Austin

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Led Mormons to Utah

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Brigham Young

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Name of Texas before it became a state

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Lonestar Republic

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Made a knife that was named after him

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James Bowie

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Texans refused to surrender their cannon in this town

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Gonzales

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Treaty ended the war with Mexico

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Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Believed that he was executed after the battle of the Alamo

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Davy Crockett

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Military leader and first to die at the Alamo

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William Travis

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People who were given land to bring settlers to Texas

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Empresarios

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Led the American Army in the war with Mexico

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Winfield Scott

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The act of being taken as a state by the U.S. government
Annexation
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Used to determine which men would stay and fight in the Alamo
Line drawn in the Sand
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Name either of the two native tribes whose fierce nature made Mexicans hesitate to move to Texas
Apache or Comanche
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Dictator of Mexico
Santa Anna
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Americans who traveled west in wagons
Over landers
30
Fannan and his troops were executed at...
Goliad
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Yearly meeting held by mountain men
Rendezvous
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Women was a survivor of the Alamo
Susanna Dickinson
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5 states that belonged to the U.S. because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado
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Fur trading post was founded by Jacob Aston on the coast of Washington
Astoria
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Members of this party practiced cannabilism
Donner party
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President of Texas
Sam Houston
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Idea that Americans were meant to occupy western lands
Manifest Destiny
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Pathfinder
John Frémont
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Mormons called the city they founded in Utah...
Deseret
40
Gave squatters the right to but 160 acres of land for $1.25 per acre
Preemption act of 1830
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The U.S. And Britain both claimed this land in the northwest
Oregon
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Mexicans called Texians
Anglos
43
Fort was a major stop for settlers moving west
Fort Laramie
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First 300 people brought to Texas by Stephen Austin
Old 300
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Capital of the Texians/Texicans
Washing on the Brazos
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3 leaders of the Alamo
Davy Crockett Williams Travis James Bowie
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Alabama was originally part of the ____ territory
Mississippi
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1st settler who came into Pickens county
Josiah Tilley
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Alabama became a state in _____
1819
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What was Alabama's first capital
Cahaba
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Capital was moved to _____ in 1836
Tuscaloosa
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Tilley came to ____ in 1817
Pickensville
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______ is the oldest town in PC
Pickensville
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___ became the county seat in 1830
Carrollton
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Named for battle of Cerro Gordo
Gordo
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Lorenzo Dow came and preached that this certain town needed ____ and they were named ____
Reforming; Reform
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Aliceville is made of two towns... Named for... Established...
Bridgeville and Franconia; David Cochrane's wife, Alice; 1904
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Discussion: The Alamo
You will have to do that on your own :)
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Young lawyer who became governor of Carrollton
Samuel B. Moore
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Flower that blooms only at the Cahaba River
Cahaba Lily

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