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Soc Studies Ch 12
questions and vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Joint occupation | the possesion and settling of an area shared by two or more countries |
mountain man | a frontiersman living in the wilderness,as in the Rocky Mountains |
rendezvous | a meeting |
empresario | a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800's |
Manifest Destiny | the idea popular in the U.S. during the 1800's |
Tejano | A mexican who claims Texas as his home |
emigrant | a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere |
decree | an order or decision given by one in authority |
annex | to add a territory to ones own territory |