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One who before Texas became part of the U.S. entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government to settle a certain number of families in Texas in exchange for sizable grants of land.

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Stephen Fuller Austin is considered the founder of Anglo-American Texas.

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A Mexican politician and general who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then for Mexican independence.

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The decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

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James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House

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A Spanish term with widely varying interpretations.

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Short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the United States and Mexico on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States by over 525,000 square miles.

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The Gadsden Purchase refers to the acquisition of about 30,000 square miles (77,700 sq km) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico.

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Captain John Sutter, an immigrant from Switzerland,was born on February 15 of 1803 in Kandern, Baden, a few miles from the Swiss border.

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The Donner Party, or Donner-Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846.

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By the beginning of 1849, word of the Gold Rush had spread around the world, and an overwhelming number of gold-seekers and merchants began to arrive from virtually every continent.

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A person regarded as likely to succeed or as a potential customer, client, etc.

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The mining of stream bed deposits for minerals.