manifest destiny vocab
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| Manifest Destiny | The country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific
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| Mountain Men | A frontiersman living in the mountain wilderness
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| Rendezvous | A meeting
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| Emigrants | A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere.
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| Oregon Trail | Trail that leads to Oregon
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| Stephen F. Austin | Led 300 people to live in Texas
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| Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
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| Alamo | a Mission
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| Sam Houston | Commander in Chief of the Texas forces
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| Annex | Take control of.
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| Battle of San Jancinto | Surprised attack caused Texans to win, Santa Anna signed a treaty.
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| John C Fremont. | An Army officer
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| Rancheros | Ranch Owners
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| Rancho | Estate homes on mission lands
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed that Rio Grande was the border
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| Mexican Cession | Mexican gave California and New Mexico to the United States for a price of $15 mil.
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| Gadsden Purchase | A strip of land along the southern edge of present-day Arizona and New Mexico.
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| Forty-niners | People who arrived to California in 1849
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| Boomtowns | Towns that seem to grow overnight
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| Vigilantes | Common people created this group to protect themselves.
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| Levi Strauss | A merchant who sold denim pants to the miners.
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| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ or Latter-day Saints
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| Brigham Young | Took over as head of Mormon when Smith died, wanted Mormons to move west to the Great Salt Lake.
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