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chapter 12 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| manifest destiny | the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. |
| mountain men | A mountain man is a trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains |
| rendezvous | a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people. |
| emigrants | a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another. |
| Oregon trail | The Oregon Trail is a 2,000-mile historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon |
| Stephen F. Austin | was an American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. He was known as the Father of Texas, led the second, but first legal and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States |
| Tejanos | a Mexican-American inhabitant of southern Texas. |
| alamo | a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico |
| battle of san jancinto | The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. |
| John C. Fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest |
| Rancheros | a person who farms or works on a ranch, in the southwestern US and Mexico. |
| Rancho | |
| treaty of guadalupe hidalgo | officially Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War |
| mexican cession | The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S |
| gadsden purchase | The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden |
| Forty-niners | a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849. |
| boomtowns | a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity. |
| vigilantes | a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority |
| levi strauss | a cloths maker who sold jeans to miners |
| mormons | a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| brigham young | United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, |
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