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America:A
Narrative
History
Chapter
13
Manifest
destiny
-
ANSManifest
Destiny
is
a
term
for
the
attitude
prevalent
during
the
19th
century
period
of
American
expansion
that
the
United
States
not
only
could,
but
was
destined
to,
stretch
from
coast
to
coast.
This
attitude
helped
fuel
western
settlement,
Native
American
removal
and
war
with
Mexico.
Overland
Trails
-
ANSa
stagecoach
and
wagon
trail
in
the
American
West
during
the
19th
century.
While
portions
of
the
route
had
been
used
by
explorers
and
trappers
since
the
1820s,
the
Overland
Trail
was
most
heavily
used
in
the
1860s
as
an
alternative
route
to
the
Oregon,
California,
and
Mormon
trails
through
central
Wyoming.
The
Overland
Trail
was
famously
used
by
the
Overland
Stage
Company
owned
by
Ben
Holladay
to
run
and
passengers
to
Salt
Lake
City,
Utah,
via
stagecoaches
in
the
early
1860s.
Apache
-
ANS
Nez
Perce
-
ANSThe
Nez
Perce
are
an
Indigenous
people
of
the
Plateau
who
have
lived
on
the
Columbia
River
Plateau
in
the
Pacific
Northwest
region
of
the
United
States
for
at
least
11,500
years
Mountain
Men
-
ANSA
mountain
man
is
a
male
trapper
and
explorer
who
lives
in
the
wilderness.
Mountain
men
were
most
common
in
the
North
American
Rocky
Mountains
from
about
1810
through
to
the
1880s
(with
a
peak
population
in
the
early
1840s).
They
were
instrumental
in
opening
up
the
various
Emigrant
Trails
(widened
into
wagon
roads)
allowing
Americans
in
the
east
to
settle
the
new
territories
of
the
far
west
by
organized
wagon
trains
traveling
over
roads
explored
and
in
many
cases,
physically
improved
by
the
mountain
men
and
the
big
fur
companies
originally
to
serve
the
mule
train
based
inland
fur
trade.
Oregon
Fever
-
ANS
Presidios,
Friars
-
ANSThe
Spanish
discovered
San
Francisco
Bay
and
constructed
presidios
(military
garrisons)
at
San
Diego
and
Monterey.
Even
more
important,
Franciscan
friars,
led
by
Junípero
Serra,
established
a
Catholic
mission
at
San
Diego.
Californios
-
ANSHispanic
Californians,
called
Californios,
took
comfort
that
Mexico
City,
the
capital,
was
too
far
away
to
exercise
effective
control
over
them.
Between
1821,
when
Mexico
gained
its
independence,
and
1841,
Spanish-speaking
Californians,
as
well
as
many
recent
American
arrivals,
staged
ten
revolts
against
Mexican
governors
John
Frémont
-
ANSohn
Charles
Frémont
or
Fremont
was
an
American
explorer,
politician,
and
soldier
who,
in
1856,
became
the
first
candidate
of
the
anti-slavery
Republican
Party
for
the
office
of
President
of
the
United
States.
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