TCI Lesson 16 Vocab

a person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration.

• rancho

• stimulated

• immigrant

• legacy

a reason for doing something

• motive

• stimulated

• immigrant

• legacy

to encourage activity or growth

• motive

• stimulated

• rancho

• legacy

the position of a person, either socially or professionally

• motive

• stimulated

• rancho

• status

a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

• legacy

• Forty-Niners

• rancho

• status

to cause a person or group to suffer

• persecuted

• Forty-Niners

• stimulated

• motive

an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Columbia River in Oregon

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Oregon Trail

members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Oregon Trail

a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mormons

• Oregon Trail

a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations

• legacy

• persecuted

• rancho

• status