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| joint occupation | situation in which people from two countries can occupy an area |
| mountain man | an adventurer of the American West |
| emigrant | a person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else |
| prairie schooner | a canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s |
| Tejano | a Texan of Latin American descent |
| decree | official order |
| barricade | to block off |
| rancho | ranch, especially the large estates set up by Americans in the American West |
| ranchero | rancher, the owner of a rancho |
| forty-niner | fortune-seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush |
| boomtown | fast-growing community |
| vigilante | a person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority |
| annex | to add a territory to one's own territory |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean |
| uprising | an act of resistance or rebellion; a revolt |
| prospect | search for mineral deposits in a place, especially by means of experimental drilling and excavation |
| prairie | a large open area of grassland |
| justify | show or prove to be right or reasonable |
| Bear Flag Republic | an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco |
| Mormon | a member or follower of a millenarian Christian movement founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr, in particular a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| trek | a long arduous journey, especially one made on foot |
| incorporate | take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include |
| valley | a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it |
| desert | any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation |
| Deseret | a territory established by the Mormons in 1849 as a proposed state of the Union |
| advance | a forward movement |
| parcel | specific area with clear boundaries |
| Columbia | a female national personification or symbol of the United States |
| barricade | barrier erected across a street or other thoroughfare to prevent or delay the movement of opposing forces |
| emigrant | a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another |
| migrate | to move from one place to another |
| missionary | a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country |
| polygamy | the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time |
| community | a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common |
| persecution | hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs |
| timber | wood prepared for use in building and carpentry |
