Vocab
Owners of ranches
Ranchero
What land is considered “the west”?
Land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi
How would the addition of Texas as a slave state affect the Union?
Texas would tip the balance in Congress in favor of slave states, thus allowing pro-slavery laws to be enacted
To Give up
Cede
What is manifest destiny?
Describes the belief that the United States was destined to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Government gifts of land
Land Grant
Why did Americans go to Oregon in the early 1800s?
For free and fertile land, mild climate, and rainfall in the river valleys
Who is Father Junipero Serra?
A Spanish missionary, determined to convert Native Americans to Catholicism
To add on
Annex
A type of government with one person rule
Dictatorship
Land that forms the farthest extent of a nations settled region
Frontier
What did water rights allow people to do?
It gave them legal rights to use the water in a river, stream or other body.
Why did conflict arise between Native Americans and settlers in Oregon?
Conflict between miners and Native Americans occurred in northern Oregon over land, and miners killed many Native Americans, causing war to break out.
Fur trappers of the northwest
Mountain men
Why did the Republic of Texas hope the United States would annex Texas?
Texans wanted the rights of American citizens
Meeting where the trappers would trade furs for supplies
Rendezvous
What factors might have discouraged Americans from traveling west?
-The journey was long and hard.
-Native Americans sometimes attacked travelers and settlers because they were angered by the presence of strangers on their land.
-There was danger of not making it across the Rockies before winter set in.
Why did women enjoy greater equality in the West than in the East?
Women enjoyed greater equality because their labor was needed and valued
Attack in which one force surrounds a city or fort
Siege
What was the Mexican Cession?
Land Mexico ceded to the United States
Nick name given to those who came to California for gold
Forty-Niners
What did the United States gain as result of the Mexican-American War?
The land known as the Mexican Cession, including California, Nevada, and Utah and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico
Who founded the Mormon community?
Joseph Smith
Self-appointed law enforcers
Vigilante
What is the Mormon Church called?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints