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Ch.12 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny | The idea popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific. |
| Mountain Men | A frontiersman living in the mountain wilderness |
| Rendezvous | A meeting |
| Emigrants | A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere |
| Oregon Trail | The trail they took to Oregon Country |
| Stephen F. Austin | Received permission from the new Mexican government to organize the colony. |
| Tejanos | A Mexican who claims Texas as his home |
| Alamo | A nearby mission |
| Sam Houston | Commander in cheif of the Texas forces. |
| Annex | To add a territory to one's own territory |
| Battle of San Jancinto | Launched a surprise attack |
| John C. Fremont | A army officer |
| Rancheros | Mexican ranch owner |
| Rancho | Huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Was signed in February 1848 |
| Mexican Cession | California was given a New Mexico to the United States for the price of $15 million |
| Gadsden Purchase | In 1853 the United States paid Mexico $10 million,a strip of land along the southern edge of present-day Arizona and New Mexico |
| Forty-Niners | a person who went to California during the gold rush of 1859 |
| Boomtowns | A community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population |
| Vigilantes | People who take the law into their own hands |
| Levi Stauss | Sold the miners sturdy pants made of denim |
| Mormons | members of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints |
| Brigham Young | took over as head of the Mormons |
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