https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp Yamila Castillo p.2 en-us 2018-02-12 19:18:52 UTC 2018-02-13 01:49:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230883965 Placer mining (/ˈplæsər/ or /ˈpleɪsər/) is the mining of stream bed (alluvial) deposits for minerals. This may be done by open-pit (also called open-cast mining) or by various surface excavating equipment or tunnelling equipment.]]> 2018-02-13 01:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230883965 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884087 the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring.]]> 2018-02-13 01:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884087 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884494 forty-niner. noun. (sometimes capital) (US, history) a prospector who took part in the California gold rush of 1849. 2. 49er.]]> 2018-02-13 01:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884494 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884860 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. ]]> 2018-02-13 01:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884860 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884922 John Augustus Sutter Sr., born Johann August Sutter, was a German-born Swiss pioneer of California known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. ]]> 2018-02-13 01:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230884922 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885021 The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. ]]> 2018-02-13 01:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885021 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885116 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo.]]> 2018-02-13 01:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885116 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885184 Bear Flag Revolt. Bear Flag Revolt, (June–July 1846), short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities. In 1846 approximately 500 Americans were living in California, compared with between 8,000 and 12,000 Mexicans.]]> 2018-02-13 01:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885184 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885317 Before 1848, California wasn't even part of the United States, it belonged to Mexico. And the people who lived there were the Californios. A Californio was a Spanish speaking, Catholic person of Latin American descent born in Alta California between 1769 and 1848.]]> 2018-02-13 01:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885317 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885391 James Knox Polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives and Governor of Tennessee. ]]> 2018-02-13 01:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885391 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885599 The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.]]> 2018-02-13 01:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885599 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885664 The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission.]]> 2018-02-13 01:46:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885664 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885736 Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, often known as Santa Anna or López de Santa Anna was a Mexican politician and general who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then for Mexican independence. ]]> 2018-02-13 01:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885736 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885836 Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas", and the founder of Texas, he led the second, and ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300.]]> 2018-02-13 01:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885836 3043911 https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885962 A business person is a person involved in business – in particular someone undertaking activities for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue utilizing a combination of human, financial.]]> 2018-02-13 01:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3043911/7q433u0xbxjp/wish/230885962