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  1. 2. an increase in the size of a country's economy over a period of time.
  2. 3. wrote the Declaration of Independence
  3. 5. a general and national hero in the United States Army
  4. 8. a man of the lower nobility in Spain
  5. 10. a community undergoing rapid growth due to sudden economic shock
  6. 18. England, Wales, and Scotland considered as a unit. The name is also often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom.
  7. 20. the 3rd longest river in the continental US
  8. 21. Militaristic attitude scales
  9. 22. gave Texas its independence from Mexico and opened the door for the continued westward expansion of the United States.
  10. 24. the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage
  11. 25. Battle, war
  12. 26. the first settlers
  13. 27. from
  14. 28. Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816
  15. 29. a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to California in 1848–49
  16. 31. a person who was contracted by the Mexican. government to bring colonists to settle in Texas
  17. 34. the region in the modern-day western United States that Mexico originally controlled
  18. 35. empresario of the colony of Texas
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  1. 1. the rights of both British subjects and American citizens to "occupy" and trade in the region were recognized
  2. 4. the United States ought to claim all the territory up to __ degrees and __ minutes north parallel or fight Great Britain for the land
  3. 6. 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchase
  4. 7. flocked to California during the Gold Rush
  5. 9. to take possession of an area of land or a country, usually by force or without permission
  6. 11. moving west
  7. 12. From 1833 to 1835, he served as Mexico's president four times before becoming a
  8. 13. backed dictator.
  9. 14. the site of the 1836 battle between Texas revolutionary forces and the Mexican army
  10. 15. the idea that Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
  11. 16. the Medicine Line
  12. 17. descendants of the Spaniards and Mestizos – Spanish, Native American, and other groups
  13. 19. The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851 and reorganized in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in San Francisco, California.
  14. 23. laws that offered new settlers a large tracts of land for a low price
  15. 30. Spanish rule in 1810, but some suggest that the name may be derived from the biblical Goliath.
  16. 32. Polk is known for extending the territory of the United States through the Mexican–American War during his presidency
  17. 33. a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to