Chapter 12 (history)
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9 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Joint Occupation | the possession and setting of an area shared by two or more countries |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific |
| Emigrant | a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere |
| Empresario | a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s |
| Annex | to add a territory to one's own territory |
| Rahchero | Mexican ranch owner |
| Forty-niners | people who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 |
| Boomtown | a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population |
| Vigilantes | people who take the law into their own hands |
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