| A | B |
|---|
| forty-niners | People who traveled in 1849 to get rich in gold. |
| boomtowns | New communities built overnight. |
| Levi Strauss | Sold miners sturdy pants made of denim |
| vigilantes | Citizen groups formed for protection. |
| constitution | List of laws to support the government. |
| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. |
| Joseph Smith | Believed he had visions that led him to buld a new Church. |
| Brigham Young | Took over as head of the Mormons |
| incorporated | included |
| Tejanos | Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home. |
| empresarios | People who obtained land grants and recruited setlers. |
| Stephen Austin | Organized a colony of 300 American settlers in Texas. |
| decree | official order |
| remove | take away |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | Became president of Mexico |
| Alamo | Mission in Texas site of a famous battle for Texan independence |
| Sam Houston | Commander in Chief of the Texas forces and 1st president of Texas. |
| annex | take control over |
| plus | in addition to |
| access | get into into |
| joint occupation | People from both the US and Britain could settle there in Oregon Country. |
| mountain men | Tough indpendent men made living by trapping beaver. |
| rendezvous | Mountain men gathered to exchange their "hairy banknotes" with traders. |
| emigrants | Pioneers who made the journey West |
| Prairie schooners | Covered wagons |
| Manifest Destiny | To overspread and possess the whold of the continent which God has given us. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Wiliam Becknell's route used to transport goods. |
| ranchos | Huge Mexican estates |
| Rancheros | Ranch owners treated Native Americans like slaves. |
| resources | raw materials |
| commenced | begun |
| Californios | Mexicans who lived in California. |
| ceded | gave away |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up Texas and agreed the Rio Grande as border. |
