https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8 Made with big dreams en-us 2018-02-12 21:31:04 UTC 2025-09-24 07:49:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841500 a surficial mineral deposit formed by the concentration of small particles of heavy minerals, as gold, rutile, or platinum, in gravel or small sands. 2. the site of a form of mining (placer mining) in which a placer deposit is washed to separate the gold or other valuable minerals. Origin of placer¹.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841500 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841520  a preliminary printed statement that describes an enterprise (such as a business or publication) and that is distributed to prospective buyers, investors, or participants.]]> 2018-02-12 21:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841520 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841550 The people who left their homes in search of gold were later referred to as the "forty-niners," simply because the year was 1849. Although the exact numbers are unknown, it's believed that around 300,000 people migrated to California during the Gold Rush.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841550 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841586 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 21:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841586 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841617 John Sutter, in full John Augustus Sutter, original name Johann August Suter, German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California; the discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush.

]]> 2018-02-12 21:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841617 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841650 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 21:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841650 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841779 Ended the Mexican War; under its terms Mexico gave up all claims to Texas north of the Rio Grande and ceded California, the Utah and New Mexico territories. Also paid Mexico fifteen million dollars for the lands, but the land cession amounted to nearly half that nation's territory.]]> 2018-02-12 21:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841779 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841797 During the Bear Flag Revolt, from June to July 1846, a small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic.]]> 2018-02-12 21:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841797 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841810 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 21:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841810 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841832 A slave owning southerner dedicated to Democratic party. U.S. House of Representative from TN 1825-39 acting as the Speaker from 1835-39. Became Gov. of TN 1939-1841. In 1844, he was a "dark horse" candidate for president, and he won the election. A nationalist that campaigned on Manifest Destiny: Annex Texas, Occupy Oregon 54' 40" or fight. Most territory added than any other President accept Jefferson. Oregon Treaty, reestablished an independent Treasury System, Walker Tariff, Mexican War, treaty of Guadalupe 1848. Official U.S. territory of Oregon 1848.He was a friend and follower of Andrew Jackson. He opposed Clay's American System, instead advocating lower tariff, separation the treasury and the federal government from the banking system.]]> 2018-02-12 21:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841832 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841847 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 21:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841847 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841875 Texian soldiers established a garrison at the Alamo Mission, a former Spanish religious outpost which had been converted to a makeshift fort by the recently expelled Mexican Army.]]> 2018-02-12 21:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841875 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841896 became a military captain and was elected president in 1833, known for his efforts in staving off Spain's attempt to recapture the country.]]> 2018-02-12 21:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841896 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841915 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.]]> 2018-02-12 21:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841915 304523 https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841933 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.]]> 2018-02-12 21:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/304523/uzbdm3rr1bz8/wish/230841933