Ch 12. Vocab
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| Manifest Destiny | The idea popular in the United States during the 1800's that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific
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| Mountain Men | Frontiersmen 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 | A trail pioneer traveled to Oregon
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| Stephen F. Austin | Stephen F. Austin received permission from the new Mexican government to organize the colony
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| Tejanos | Mexicans who claim Texas as his home
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| Alamo | When Santa Anna's army reached San Antonio in late February they found a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission.
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| Sam Houston | The government named him as the new commander
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| Annex | To add a territory to one's own territory
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| Battle of San Jancinto | it was between Houston and Santa Anna where they battled and Houston captured Santa Anna. Santa Anna later signed a treaty
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| John C. Fremont | An army officer, wrote of the region's mild climate and natural resouces
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| Rancheros | Mexican ranch owners
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| Rancho | Huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico
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| Mexican Cession | Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the United States for the price of $15 million.
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| Gadsden Purchase | A strip of land along the southern edge of a present-day Arizona and New Mexico
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| Fort-Niners | People who arrived in California for gold in 1849
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| Boomtowns | A community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population
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| Vigilantes | People who take the law into their own hands
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| Levi Stauss | Inventor of Levis, sold miners sturdy denim pants
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| Mormons | Members of Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints
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| Brigham Young | The leader of the Mormons
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