Chapter 12 History Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Manifest Destiny | God's will to expand the United States |
Mountain Men | fur traders that spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains |
Rendezvous | meeting |
Emigrants | left the U.S to go to Oregon |
Oregon Trail | The way to get to Oregon |
Stephan F. Austin | organized a colony and recruited 300 American families to settle in Texas |
Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas as their homes |
Alamo | Leaders were Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William B. Travis. America lost |
Sam Houston | Commander of Texas forces. Won Battle of San Jancinto |
Annex | take control of |
Battle of San Jancito | Sam Houston led it and won. |
John C. Fremont | army official |
Rancheros | ranch owners |
Rancho | huge estates set up by Mexicans |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed to the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico |
Mexican Cession | Mexico gave California and New Mexico to U.S for $15 million |
Gadsden Purchase | a strip of land along the southern edge of Arizona and New Mexico. Bought for 10 million |
Forty-niners | Arrived in California for gold |
Boomtowns | as people came for gold, they built new communities almost overnight |
vigilantes | citizens formed committees of groups to protect themselves |
Levi Strauss | Got rich by selling denim pants to miners |
Mormons | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Brigham Young | head of Mormons and decided to move every one to the Great Salt Lake in Utah |
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