Vocabulary
Used on animals to pull wagons
What is Yoke?
This person was sent to try to persuade others to adopt a religion
What is missionary?
Many Rancho owners were Spanish Speakers because their land was previously part of what country?
What is Mexico?
The forty-niners traveled west for _______.
What is Gold?
This term describes a person who leaves their homeland to settle somewhere else
What is Immigrants?
This person was from the east coast and traveled overland in wagons
What is Pioneer?
Chief Joseph was afraid of U.S soldiers so he led his people toward....
What is Canda?
The land a minor worked at was called a _______.
What is Claim?
A spanish word for a cowboy, used in the west
What is Vaqueros?
Many of these immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad
What is Chinese immigrants?
Most Mormons settled in this location
_________ offered settlers cheap or free land to move west
What is Homestead Act?