Chapter 12 Vocab.
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| Manifest Destiny | The God given right to move west
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| Mountain Men | Fur traders in Oregon country
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| Rendezvous | When mountain men gather for a meeting
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| Emigrants | the Pioneers
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| Oregon Trail | A trail to the Oregon country
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| Stephen F. Austin | Recruited 300 American families and was a leader among American settlers
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| Tejanos | Mexicans who claim 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 and cheif of the Texas forces
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| Annex | Take control of
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| Battle of San Jancinto | More than 600 soliders died and about more than 700 captured including Santa Anna
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| John C. Fremont | An Army officer who wrote about California's climate
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| Rancheros | Ranch owners
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| Rancho | Mexicans who bought avaliable mission land and set up huge estates
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexicans gave up Texas and agreed that Rio Grande was the border
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| Mexican Cession | When Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the United States for 15 million dollars
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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 California looking for gold
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| Boomtowns | Towns that were built practically over night
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| Vigilantes | Committees of groups to protect themselves
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| Levi Stauss | Sold sturdy pants made of denim to miners
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| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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| Brigham Young | After Joseph Smith died he took over as the head of the Mormons and move all the Mormons to present day Utah
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