https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko Made with a dash of wit en-us 2018-02-12 20:12:52 UTC 2018-02-14 18:53:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230815019 The obtaining of minerals from placers by washing or dredging.

]]> 2018-02-12 20:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230815019 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230816326  a type of explorer, but one with a specific purpose]]> 2018-02-12 20:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230816326 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230817268 The people who left their homes in search of gold were later referred to as the "forty-niners," simply because the year was 1849.]]> 2018-02-12 20:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/230817268 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231286660 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 20:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231286660 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231287285  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 20:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231287285 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231287545 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 20:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231287545 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231288163 2018-02-13 20:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231288163 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231289125 The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that, for twenty-five days in 1846, militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California.]]> 2018-02-13 20:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231289125 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231573015 Californio is a Spanish term with widely varying interpretations. American literary scholar James D. Hart, in his 1978 book Companion to California, defined Californios as "persons of Spanish or Mexican heritage whose place of birth or residence was California, as distinct from residents who went to California from the U.S.]]> 2018-02-14 16:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231573015 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231573769 James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841). A protégé of Andrew Jackson, ]]> 2018-02-14 16:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231573769 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231574450 The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution]]> 2018-02-14 16:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231574450 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231575518 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]]> 2018-02-14 16:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231575518 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231660354 Stephen Fuller Austin was an American empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas", and the founder of Texas, he led the second, and ultimately]]> 2018-02-14 18:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231660354 3055531 https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231661207 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,]]> 2018-02-14 18:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3055531/ay8vl6yipnko/wish/231661207