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Ch.12 Vocab

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Manifest Destiny   The idea popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific.  
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Mountain Men   A frontiersman 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   The trail they took to Oregon Country  
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Stephen F. Austin   Received permission from the new Mexican government to organize the colony.  
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Tejanos   A Mexican who claims Texas as his home  
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Alamo   A nearby mission  
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Sam Houston   Commander in cheif of the Texas forces.  
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Annex   To add a territory to one's own territory  
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Battle of San Jancinto   Launched a surprise attack  
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John C. Fremont   A army officer  
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Rancheros   Mexican ranch owner  
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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   Was signed in February 1848  
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Mexican Cession   California was given a New Mexico to the United States for the price of $15 million  
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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  
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Forty-Niners   a person who went to California during the gold rush of 1859  
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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   Sold the miners sturdy pants made of denim  
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Mormons   members of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints  
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Brigham Young   took over as head of the Mormons  
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