Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
100
Person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else
Who is an emigrant?
100
The large estates set up by Mexicans in the American West
What are ranchos?
100
Owner of a ranch
Who is a ranchero?
200
An adventurer of the American West
Who are mountain men?
200
A fast growing community
What are boomtowns?
200
To block off
What is barricade?
300
Fortune seeker who came to California (CA) during the Gold Rush
Who is a forty-niner?
300
Official order
What is a decree?
300
To add a territory to one's own territory
What is annex?
400
Person who acts as police, judge and jury without legal authority
Who is a vigilante?
400
Situation in which people from two countries share an area
What is joint occupation?
400
A canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
What is a prairie schooner?
500
A Texan or Latin American, often Mexican
Who is a Tejano?
500
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?