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11 Cards in this Set
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Annex |
To take control of or to add territory into an already established political boundary |
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Boomtown's |
Communities built almost overnight as a result of the gold rush |
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Cede |
To give also used as cession land that was given |
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49ers |
People who went to California to look for gold in 1849 |
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Joint occupation |
People from both sides can settle an area and share the territory |
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Land Speculator |
People who buy land in the hope that it will increase in value |
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Lone Star Republic |
The name Texas gave itself when it was its own separate country from 1836 to 1845 |
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Manifest destiny |
Idea that the US was meant to go from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
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Oregon Trail |
Path from Missouri to Oregon |
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Prairie schooners |
Canvas covered wagons |
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Texas Revolution |
1936 Texas goes to war with Mexico and wins Independence |
