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history/social studi
r.k.s.m.s history/social studies vocabualary
Question | Answer |
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the possession and settling of an area shared by two or more country's. | joint occupation |
a frontiers men living in the wilderness, as in the Rocky Mountains. | mountain man |
a meeting | rendezvous |
a person who leaves the country or regain to live else wear | emigrant |
the idea popular in the united states during the 1800s that the country must expand its binderies to the pacific | Manifest Destiny |
a ma Mexican who claims Texas as his home | tejano |
a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s. | emprasario |
an order or decision given by one in authority | decree |
to add a territory to ones own territory | annex |
huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexicans in California | rancho |
Mexican ranch owner | ranchero |
Mexican's who lives in California | Californios |
to give up by treaty | cede |
people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849 | forty-niners |
a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population | boomtown |
people who take the law into their own hands | vigilante |