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16 Cards in this Set

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forty-niners
people who went to California during the gold rush in 1849
boomtown
a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population
Manifeset Destiny
the ideaa that the country must expand its boundaries
Californios
Mexicans who lived in California
rancho
huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers
joint occupation
the possesion and settling of an area shared by two or more countries
Tejano
a Mexican who claims Texas as his home
vigilantes
people who take the law into their own lands
emigrant
a person who leaves a country to live elsewhere
mountain men
a frontiersman living in the wildernness, as in the Rocky Mountains
cede
to give up by treaty
ranchero
mexican ranch owner
decree
an order or decision given by one in authority
rendezvous
a meeting
empresario
a person who arrranged for the settlement of land in TExas during the 1800s
annex
to add a territory to one's own territory