https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p Made with good vibes en-us 2018-02-12 20:14:06 UTC 2018-02-12 20:24:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230812965 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230812965 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813105 Prospect is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics, economics and current affairs...]]> 2018-02-12 20:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813105 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813708 The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team located in the San Francisco Bay Area. They compete in the National Football League as a member of the league's National Football Conference West division.]]> 2018-02-12 20:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813708 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813941 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]]> 2018-02-12 20:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230813941 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814566 John Augustus Sutter Sr., born Johann August Suter, 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814566 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814798 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814798 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814941 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 (now a neighborhood of ...]]> 2018-02-12 20:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230814941 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815219 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815219 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815339 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815339 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815528 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815528 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815682 The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisivebattle 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.]]> 2018-02-12 20:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815682 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815818 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 ...]]> 2018-02-12 20:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815818 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815970 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]]> 2018-02-12 20:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230815970 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230816249 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 ... ]]> 2018-02-12 20:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230816249 306692 https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230816674 An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers.]]> 2018-02-12 20:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/306692/e5lyqawz4b8p/wish/230816674