Week 16 Vocabulary: Westward Expansion

including or adding

• annexation

• territorial expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• immigrant

expanding the borders of, or amount of land that belongs to a country

• annexation

• territorial expansion

• settlement

• standing army

a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

• settlement

• annexation

• forty-niners

• immigrant

one taking part in the California Gold Rush of 1849

• Manifest Destiny

• immigrant

• forty-niner

• immigration

an army that is ready at all times

• forty-niners

• territorial expansion

• standing army

• settlement

established community

• settlement

• annexation

• Manifest Destiny

• immigrant

the idea that settlers were justified in claiming land from anyone who opposed them

• settlement

• Manifest Destiny

• annexation

• forty-niners

people who are among the first to do something

• forty-niners

• standing army

• immigrant

• pioneers

the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

• immigration

• annexation

• Manifest Destiny

• territorial expansion