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chapter 12 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Manifest Destiny | Gods given right for the united states to expaned to the pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean |
Mountain men | They were tough, independent men that made there living by trapping beaver |
Rendezous | This was what the mountain men said when they where going to have a meeting |
Emigrants | Emigrants are people who leave the united states to go to another state |
Oregon Trail | They the path that the emigrants toke to get to Oregon |
Stephen F. Austin | The man that got permission from New Mexico to organize a colony and Austin recruited 300 American family's to settle in Texas |
Tejanos | The mexicans that claimed Texas as there home |
Alamo | A force that fought agianist the |
Sam Houston | |
Annex | |
Battle of San jancinto | |
John C. Fremont | |
Rancheros | |
Rancho | |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
Mexican Cession | |
Gadsden Purchase | |
Forty-niners | |
Boomtowns | |
Vigilantes | |
Levi Strauss | |
Mormons | |
Brigham Young |