| A | B |
|---|
| rendezvous | meeting of trappers |
| miners | prospectors |
| reform | an improvement in government |
| emigrate | to leave one country and move to another |
| immigrant | person who moves from one place to another to make a permanent home |
| empresaros | peoel who agreed to find settlers to Texas for Spain in th 1800s |
| pass | openings through the mountains |
| Tejanos | people of Mexican heritage that consider Texas their home |
| vigilantes | someone who enforces the law without authority |
| annex | to add, as a territory |
| cede | to give up, as a territory |
| prairie schooner | lightweight covered wagon |
| forty-niner | gold-seekers who went to California in 1849 |
| Bear Flag Republic | name for Califonia when it claimed independence from Mexico |
