Chapter 12 Vocab. Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Manifest Destiny | The God given right to move west |
Mountain Men | Fur traders in Oregon country |
Rendezvous | When mountain men gather for a meeting |
Emigrants | the Pioneers |
Oregon Trail | A trail to the Oregon country |
Stephen F. Austin | Recruited 300 American families and was a leader among American settlers |
Tejanos | Mexicans who claim Texas as their home |
Alamo | A small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission |
Sam Houston | Commander and cheif of the Texas forces |
Annex | Take control of |
Battle of San Jancinto | More than 600 soliders died and about more than 700 captured including Santa Anna |
John C. Fremont | An Army officer who wrote about California's climate |
Rancheros | Ranch owners |
Rancho | Mexicans who bought avaliable mission land and set up huge estates |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexicans gave up Texas and agreed that Rio Grande was the border |
Mexican Cession | When Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the United States for 15 million dollars |
Gadsden Purchase | A strip of land along the southern edge of present-day Arizona and New Mexico |
Forty-niners | People who went to California looking for gold |
Boomtowns | Towns that were built practically over night |
Vigilantes | Committees of groups to protect themselves |
Levi Stauss | Sold sturdy pants made of denim to miners |
Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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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