alliances: working agreements

filibusters: someone engaging in unofficial war on a country.

spanish caste system: peninsulares, crillos, and mestizos.

father hidalgo: el grito de dolores, executed, caused mx to fight for equality.

results of a-o treaty: southern border, neutral ground, us own florida, and la purchase.

effect of la purchase: pop. growth, us size doubling.

plains tribe w sp: aztecs

who made the rep army: arredondo