U8: Westward Expansion Vocab Flashcard

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A Texan of Mexican descent.

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Tejano

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A person or small group who takes the law into their own hands.

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Vigilantes

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A person granted the right to settle in Texas in exchange for bringing more settlers and improving the land.

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Empresario

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A man living/working in mountains or wilderness, especially a frontiersman or pioneer.

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Mountain Man

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A town that has rapidly grown due to gold rush prosperity.

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Boomtown

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Those who flocked to California in 1849 for gold.

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Forty-Niners

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A person who farms or works on a ranch in Mexico.

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Ranchero

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Annual gathering of mountain men to share stories and trade goods.

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Rendezvous

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To leave one country or region and settle in another.

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Emigrate

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America's "God given right" to claim land to the Pacific.

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Manifest Destiny