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manifest destiny

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Manifest Destiny   expanding the U.S.A.  
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Mountain Men   People that spend most of their time in the Rocky Mountains  
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Rendezvous   Meeting  
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Emigrants   Pioneers  
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Oregon Trail   A trail that went across the Great Plains  
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Stephen F. Austin   Organizer of the colony  
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Tejanos   Mexicans that claimed Texas as their home  
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Alamo   a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission  
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Sam Houston   commander in chief of the Texas force  
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Annex   take control of  
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Battle of San Jacinto   a battle that Sam Houston gathered people to fight at San Jacinto  
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John C. Fremont   an army officer  
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Rancheros   ranch owners  
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Rancho   estate  
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   A document that states Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas  
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Mexican Cession   Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas  
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Gadsden Purchase   a strip of land along the southern edge of present day Arizona and New Mexico  
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Forty-niners   People who went to look for the gold  
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Boomtowns   Almost overnight  
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Vigilantes   groups that the community formed  
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Levi Strauss   Sold pants to the miners  
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Mormons   members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  
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Brigham Young   The head of of the Mormons  
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