https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-02-12 19:16:39 UTC 2023-09-09 07:51:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230781134 a surficial mineral deposit formed by the concentration of small particles of heavy minerals, as gold, rutile, or platinum, in gravel or small sands.]]> 2018-02-12 19:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230781134 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230785249 search for mineral deposits in a place, especially by means of experimental drilling and excavation.]]> 2018-02-12 19:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230785249 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230787855 a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.

]]> 2018-02-12 19:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230787855 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230790842 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. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.]]> 2018-02-12 19:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230790842 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230793656 John Augustus Sutter Sr. (February 20, 1803 – June 18, 1880), 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.]]> 2018-02-12 19:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230793656 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230794594 a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden. Examples from the Web for Gadsden Purchase. The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 secured a further small strip of territory from Mexico.]]> 2018-02-12 19:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230794594 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230795518 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]]> 2018-02-12 19:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230795518 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230797436 Bear Flag Revolt, (June–July 1846), short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California’s Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities.]]> 2018-02-12 19:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230797436 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230799092 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 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230799092 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230800709 Polk, James K. definition. A political leader of the nineteenth century; Polk, a Democrat, was president from 1845 to 1849. An ardent believer in manifest destiny, he led the United States into the Mexican War. In his presidency, the United States acquired Texas and California and large territories in between.]]> 2018-02-12 19:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230800709 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230801486 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.]]> 2018-02-12 19:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230801486 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230802285 Alamo is defined as a mission in San Antonio, Texas that was used as a fort during the Texas revolution. An example of the Alamo is the site of 187 Texan deaths in 1836. The definition of an alamo is a poplar tree from the southwest area of the United States. An example of an alamo is a cottonwood tree.

]]> 2018-02-12 19:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230802285 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230888311  Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna - Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)]]> 2018-02-13 02:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230888311 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230889124 Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) 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 families from the United States to the region in 1825.]]> 2018-02-13 02:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230889124 3045271 https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230889589 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. The word is Spanish for entrepreneur.]]> 2018-02-13 02:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/3045271/r1jb887x0in4/wish/230889589