Chapter 11

  • Father Miguel

    led a rebeliion of about 80,000 poor INdians and mestizos
  • John Jacob Astor

    founded aa fur-trading post called Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River
  • Stephen

    started a Texas colony on the lower Colorado River
  • leaving New York

    Smith and his numberof converts left New YOrk because of a coupole reasons
  • Mexico

    Mexico ended the mission system in Caloifornia
  • Texas

    Texans declared their independence from Mexico
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    Houston forces surrounded Mexican troops whiole resting and shouted
  • fur trade

    era of American fur trading in the Pac ific Northwest coming to an end
  • Smith

    Somebody that did not like Mormons had murdered Smith
  • Army

    President POlk told General Zach Taylor to lead an army inot the disputed region
  • Treaty

    GB and US signed a treaty that gave the US all Oregon land south of hte forty-ninth parallel
  • James Marshall

    Sutter sent James Marshall to build a sawmill beside a nearby river
  • Immigrants

    about 20,000 immigrants went to California
  • California

    California became the 31st state
  • Utah

    about 40,000 Mormons in Utah