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