chapter 12 vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Manifest Destiny | expanding the U.S.A. |
Mountain Men | People that spend most of their time in the Rocky Mountains |
Rendezvous | Meeting |
Emigrants | Pioneers |
Oregon Trail | A trail that went across the Great Plains |
Stephen F. Austin | Organizer of the colony |
Tejanos | Mexicans that claimed Texas as their home |
Alamo | a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission |
Sam Houston | commander in chief of the Texas force |
Annex | take control of |
Battle of San Jacinto | a battle that Sam Houston gathered people to fight at San Jacinto |
John C. Fremont | an army officer |
Rancheros | ranch owners |
Rancho | estate |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | A document that states Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas |
Mexican Cession | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed on the boarder of Mexico and Texas |
Gadsden Purchase | a strip of land along the southern edge of present day Arizona and New Mexico |
Forty-niners | People who went to look for the gold |
Boomtowns | Almost overnight |
Vigilantes | groups that the community formed |
Levi Strauss | Sold pants to the miners |
Mormons | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Brigham Young | The head of of the Mormons |
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