Ch 12 "Manifest Destiny" Vocab Review

Too add more land is to ______ land.

• Addition

• Annex

• Divide

The West inspired ____, or self reliant independence, to pioneers who went for many reasons.

• Group mentality

• Insurrection

• Individualism

The idea that the United States had the right/obligation to expand its territory across North America.

• Manifest Destiny

• Boomtowns

• Siege

Pioneers were settlers moving to a new and unfamiliar land.

• True

• False

A large group of covered that traveled together across North America.

• Wagons

• Wagon Trains

• Horse Drawn Carriages

Californios were __________.

• The California collab with Doritos

• Residents of California of Spanish and Mexican descent.

• People looking to move to California for the Gold Rush

A town that experienced a great population increase in a very short time period.

• Boomtowns

• Population boom

• Baby Booms

• Surplustowns

Insurrections are also known as _____.

• Military Tactics

• Peaceful Protests

• Rebellions

One of thousands of prospective miners who traveled to California seeking gold in 1849.

• Gold Giants

• Gold Miners

• Forty Niners

Land granted by Mexico to settlers in form of large estates in what is now California.

• Presidios

• Ranchos

• Farm Houses