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Chapter 12
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | God Given right to expand westward |
| Mountain Men | Spent most of their time in mountains |
| Renezvous | mountain men gathered for a meeting |
| Emigrants | a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere |
| Oregon trail | Trail used to get to the oregon country |
| Stephen F. Austin | Recruited families to move to texas |
| Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas at their home |
| Alamo | The important war we lost |
| Sam Houston | Lead us in victory at the Battle of San Jacinto |
| Annex | take control of |
| Battle of San Jancito | We won and Santa Anna signed a treaty to declare Texas' independence. |
| John C. Fremont | Wrote about California's mild climate and vast resources. |
| Rancheros | Ranch Owners |
| Rancho | Mexican settlers bought available mission lands and set up huge estates |
| Treaty Of Guadalupe Hadalgo | Signed in 1848 Mexico gave up Texas and agreed to Rio Grande as the border between Texas and mexico. |
| Mexican Cession | Mexico gave up California and New Mexico to the united states for $15 million . |
| Gadsden Purchase | A strip of land along the edge of present day Arizona and new mexico. |
| Forty-Niners | People who arrived in California for gold |
| Boomtowns | New communities |
| Vigilantes | groups of people for protection |
| Levi Stauss | Made money by selling Denim |
| Mormons | Members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Brigham Young | Lead the Mormons to Utah (Great Salt Lake) |