chpater 11

By morganhenson23

  • Americans push westward

  • Father Miguel led a rebellion

  • John Jacob Astor founded a fur trading post called Astoria

  • Mexico became independent

  • Stephen Austin started a Texas colony

  • Smith and his growing number of converts left New York

  • Battle of San Jacinto

  • an anit- mormon mob murdered Smith in 1844

  • 5,000 settlers occurpied the Willamette Valley

  • General Taylor led his troops to the Rio Grande

  • Donner party began its journey west ward

  • U.S. and Mexico signed Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Mormon men practiced polygamy

  • California placed a high monthly tax on all foreign miners

  • About 40,000 Mormons in Utah

  • Completion of transcontinental railroad