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17 Cards in this Set
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RENDEZVOUS
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A meeting place.
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PASS
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An opening.
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EMIGRATE
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To move.
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PRAIRIE SCHOONER
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Lightweight covered wagons.
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ANNEX
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To add
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TEJANOS
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People of Mexican Heritage who consider Texas their home.
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EMPRESARIO
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People who agree to recruit settlers.
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REFORM
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Improvement or improvements to something.
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BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC
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An indeprendent flag flown by Americans who revolted over Mexican rulers in California. When the American General got to California, that flag was replaced by the American flag.
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CEDE
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To give up. (Cede from the Union means when the South wanted to be by themselves-led to the Civil War).
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FORTY-NINER
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Gold seekers who stampeded into California in 1849.
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PROSPECTOR
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Miners (usually of gold).
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VIGILANTES
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Committee members who drove out petty theives and hanged murders, but weren't cops.
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BRIGHAM YOUNG
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The leader of a group of people who walked from Iowa to Utah for religious freedom. The religion was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormons.
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JOHN SUTTER
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A Swiss immigrant who was a builder having a sawmill along the American River in California-Sutter's Mill.
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BIDDY MASON
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An African American nurse who invested her savings in real estate until she built a fortune. She donated money to an elementary school for African American children.
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ISTHMUS OF PANAMA
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The thin strip of land that joins North and South America.
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