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Adams-Onís Treaty
An agreement made between the United States and Spain in 1819, in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States and relinquished its claims to Oregon, and the United States ...
Barry Goldwater
(1909–1998), U.S. Senator, Republican presidential candidate.Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Goldwater attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and the University of Arizona before entering the ...
California
It is estimated that approximately 300,000 Native Americans inhabited the area now know as California before Spanish explorers arrived in search of wealth. On September 28, 1542, an expedition led ...
Centers for Disease Control.
(CDC)The US federal government facility based mainly in Atlanta, Georgia, that provides investigative and educational facilities in most branches of public health sciences, serving the United States ...
Collis P. Huntington
(1821–1900), railroad entrepreneur.Born in Connecticut, Collis P. Huntington, after an early business career in New York City, moved to Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush and started a ...
conservation Movement.
Launched in 1908 as a national crusade, the conservation movement involved the wide range of concerns later embraced by the environmental movement. Its intellectual origins date to the western land ...
cowboy
Originally, a lawless marauder. The name was first applied to some pro-British gangs in the USA during the American War of Independence, who roamed the neutral ground of Westchester county in New ...
dust Bowl
An area of the Great Plains region, USA, where a combination of drought and inappropriate farming practices, especially an expansion of wheat production, led to severe deflation and soil erosion ...
Far West
Region bounded by the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the NorthwestandSouthwest regions, includes California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The region ...
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
(c.1510–1554),Spanish explorer born in Salamanca who in 1535 travelled in the suite of Antonio de Mendoza to Mexico, where he married advantageously and in 1538 became governor of the ...
Gadsden Purchase
(1853–54)US acquisition of Mexican territory. Following the Mexican-American War and under pressure to construct a transcontinental railway across the south-west of the USA, the administration of ...
Geronimo
(c. 1829–1909)Apache chief. He led his people in resistance to White encroachment on tribal reservations in Arizona, waging war against settlers and US troops in a series of raids, before ...
Hispanic Americans
A word used to describe persons resident in the United States whose ethnic origin includes Spanish-speaking (or Portuguese-speaking) ancestors who entered the United States from Latin America.
housing
Refers both to shelter in houses and to the provision of houses. It is the latter which has attracted historians, who have been particularly interested in tracing the provision of ...
Kansas City
The Missouri settlement that by the 1850s would be called Kansas City arose in the 1820s as a fur trading center at the junction of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. ...
lynching and Mob Violence
The punishment or execution of alleged criminals by a group of people without a legal trial. It is named after Captain William Lynch (1742–1820), head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in ...
Native American Church
Is a loosely confederated religious organization with some 250,000 American Indian adherents in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.Its distinctive characteristic is the sacramental use of peyote ...
Old Southwest
As distinguished from the present Southwest, included the region between the Savannah River and the Mississippi, which constituted the southwestern frontier from colonial times to the early 19th ...
Roman Catholicism
The momentous cultural and political changes that occurred in Europe between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth set the stage for the transformation of Catholic ...
Santa Fe Trail
A famous wagon trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico; an important commercial route in the 19th century.
