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Chp 12 and 13 vocab
Ch12 and 13 vocab for history
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History
8th Grade
03/27/2012

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Term
joint occupation
Definition
people from both the U.S. and Great Britain could settle there
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mountain man
Definition
people who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains
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rendezvous
Definition
meeting
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emigrants
Definition
people who left U.S. to go to Oregon
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
meant the U.S. was set apart for a purpose to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific
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Tejanos
Definition
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
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empresarios
Definition
people who obtained the grants from the government and recruited the settlers
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decree
Definition
official order
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divine
Definition
set apart for a special purpose
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annex
Definition
take control of
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rancho
Definition
Mexican settlers who bought the lands and built huge properties
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rancheros
Definition
ranch owners
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Californios
Definition
the mexicans who lived in california
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cede
Definition
gave
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forty-niners
Definition
those who arrived in 1849
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boomtown
Definition
people who rushed to a new area for gold and built new communities over night
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vigilante
Definition
people who took the law into their own hands, acting like police, judge, jury, or executioner
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Mormons
Definition
were forced to move on
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persecuted
Definition
to treat someone harshly because of what they believe
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justifable
Definition
able to get back at
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prejudice
Definition
a preformed opinion usually an unfavorable one
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agrarian
Definition
– relating to farming or rural life
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discrimination
Definition
treatment of people or groups of people because of prejudice about race, age, religion
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famine
Definition
extreme food scarcity
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yeomen
Definition
– commoner who owned and cultivated their own land / not a slave owner
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tenant farmers
Definition
– farmer who rents land and pays the owner mostly in produce or cash
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slave code
Definition
– laws in the southern states that controlled slaves
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