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chapter 12 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |