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emigrant

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A person who leads a country or region to live elsewhere

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joint occupation

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people from both the United States and Great Britain could settle there

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Mountain man

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a frontiers man living in the Mountain wilderness

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Rendezvous

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meeting

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Prairie schooners

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covered wagons

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manifest destiny

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The idea popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific

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Adams Onis Treaty

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John Adams negotiated with Spain. Spanish agreed to set the limits of their territory at what is now California’s northern border and to give up all claims to Oregon.

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access

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get to

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Oregon Trail

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went across the Great Plains,along the platte river, and through the Southpass of the Rocky Mountains.

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Henry Clay

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polks opponent. did not take a strong position on the organ issue

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James K Polk

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democrat nominee. firm believer and manifest destiny. focused on making Oregon part of the United States.

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fifty four forty or fight

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refereeing to the line of latitude they believe should be the nation’s northern border in Oregon. Britain did not except a border at 54 40

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tejanos

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Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home

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empresarios

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people who obtained these grants and recruited the settlers

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establish

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set up

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Stephen F Austin

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received permission from the new Mexican government to organize the colony. recruited 300 American families to settle in Texas

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decree

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official order

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remove

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take away

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Santa Anna

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president of Mexico. named himself dictator and overthrew Mexico’s constitution of 1824. place Texas under greater central control.

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Alamo

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  1. small text enforce barricaded inside a nearby mission
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Sam Houston

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Commander in chief of the Texas forces. wanted to prevent the Mexicans from overrunning other forts.

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annex

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take control

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Santa Fe trail

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started near Independence Missouri across the prairies to the Arkansas River. mostly flat

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ranchos

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huge Estates

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rancheros

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ranch owners. treated Native Americans almost like slaves

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John c Fremont

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Army officer. Row of the regions mild climate and vast natural resources.

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commenced

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begun

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Californios

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Mexicans who lived in California

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Winfield Scott

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General. President pool gave the task of capturing Mexico City.

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treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

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Mexico gave up Texas and agreed to the Rio Grande As the border between Texas and Mexico.

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Mexican cession

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gave California and New Mexico to the U.S. for the prise of 15 million.

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ceded

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gave

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Gadsden purchase

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Us paid Mexico 10 million. strip of land along the southern edge of present day Arizona and New Mexico. Us mainland reached its present size

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forty niners

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those who arrived in 1849

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boom towns

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New communities.

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Levi Strauss

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sold denim pants

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vigilantes

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committees of groups. took the law into there own hands and acted as police.

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constitution

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List of laws to support the government

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Mormons

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members of the church of Jesus Christ of later day saints. settled and you talk to fulfill their vision of the godly life

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joseph smith

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New Englander living in western New York. claimed that he had received visions that led him to build a new Christian church.

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Brigham young

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took over after smiths death. head of Mormons. decided that the Mormons should move again to escape persecution and find religious freedom

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incorporated

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included

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