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- 7. the supreme court ruling that stated that Cherokee nation was a district territory over which only the federal government had authority ignored by both president Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia
- 9. a gold seeker during the gold rush
- 10. an 800 mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian territory resulted in death in one out of four people
- 11. to search for gold
- 13. Mexican cowboys in the west who tended cattle and horses
- 14. Spanish mission in San Antonio texas
- 15. A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans
- 16. Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s
- 17. the nickname given to the tariff by southerners who opposed
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- 1. anna Mexican general and politician, he was president of Mexico and became a dictator. He fought in the Texas Revolution and seized the Alamo but was defeated and captured by Sam Houston at San Jacinto
- 2. where the us purchased land from Mexico Arizona and New Mexico
- 3. a group of western travelers who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-47 only 45 of the party's 87 members survived
- 4. treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the united states much of the Mexicos northern territory
- 5. Final battle of the Texas Revolution resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas
- 6. Agents who were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s
- 8. American religious leader who headed the Mormon Church after the murder of Joseph Smith, he moved the community to Utah, leading thousands along what came to be known as the Mormon Trail to the main settlement at Salt Lake City
- 12. a revolt against Mexico by American settlers in California who declared the territory an independent republic