vocab - 12
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- Tejano
- a mexican who lives in texas as its home
- emigrant
- to leave one home land to go live another place
- ranchero
- mexican ranch owner
- decree
- an rder given by an authority
- annex
- an addition to ones territory
- Manifest Destiny
- the idea popular in the United states during the 1800's that the country must expand its boundries to the pacific
- rendezvous
- a meeting
- Californios
- mexicans who lived in california
- cede
- to give up by treaty
- joint occupation
- the possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries
- rancho
- huge properties of livestock set up by mexican settlers in california
- vigilante
- people who take laws into their own hands
- mountain man
- a fronteirs man living in the wilderness , as in the Rockey Mountains
- forty-niners
- people who went to california during the gold rush of 1849
- boomtown
- a communtity experiences a sudden growth in buisness or population
- empresario
- a person aranged for settlement of land in texas, during the 1800's