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chapter 12 vocab
manifest destiny
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | expanding the U.S.A. |
| Mountain Men | People that spend most of their time in the Rocky Mountains |
| Rendezvous | Meeting |
| Emigrants | Pioneers |
| Oregon Trail | A trail that went across the Great Plains |
| Stephen F. Austin | Organizer of the colony |
| Tejanos | Mexicans that claimed Texas as their home |
| Alamo | a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission |
| Sam Houston | commander in chief of the Texas force |
| Annex | take control of |
| Battle of San Jacinto | a battle that Sam Houston gathered people to fight at San Jacinto |
| John C. Fremont | an army officer |
| Rancheros | ranch owners |
| Rancho | estate |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | A document that states Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas |
| Mexican Cession | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas |
| Gadsden Purchase | a strip of land along the southern edge of present day Arizona and New Mexico |
| Forty-niners | People who went to look for the gold |
| Boomtowns | Almost overnight |
| Vigilantes | groups that the community formed |
| Levi Strauss | Sold pants to the miners |
| Mormons | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Brigham Young | The head of of the Mormons |