After reading Chapter 13, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Brigham Young and the Mormons

Know-Nothing, or American, party

George Henry Evans

Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)

Spanish missions and presidios

Stephen F. Austin and American empresarios in Texas

Antonio López de Santa Anna

the Alamo

Sam Houston

Overland Trail and the Donner party

John Tyler

John C. Calhoun

Henry Clay

James K. Polk

John L. O'Sullivan and manifest destiny

Zachary Taylor ("Old Rough and Ready")

Winfield Scott

John C. Frémont and the Bear Flag Republic

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Wilmot Proviso

squatter or popular sovereignty

Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil party