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Chapter 12
| 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 from about 1810 through the 1880s. |
| 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 | |
| Stephen F. Austin | |
| Tejanos | |
| Alamo | |
| Sam Houston | |
| Annex | |
| Battle of San Jacinto | |
| John C. Fremont | |
| Rancheros | |
| Rancho | |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| Mexican Cession | |
| Gadsden Purchase | |
| Forty-niners | |
| Boomtowns | |
| Vigilantes | |
| Levi Stauss | |
| Mormons | |
| Brigham Young |