Life in the West Vocabulary Practice

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
• Legacy
• Oregon Trail
• Immigrant

A person's or a group's impact on future generations.

• Immigrant
• Legacy
• Forty-niners
• Rancho

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

• Forty-niners
• Oregon Trail
• Mormons
• Rancho

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

• Legacy
• Rancho
• The Oregon Trail
• Lewis and Clark Expedition

Members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.

• Forty-niners
• Mormons
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Legacy

The people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849.

• Rancho
• Mormons
• Forty-niners
• Lewis and Clark Expedition

A person who moves from one country to another.

• Immigrant
• Legacy
• Mormons
• Forty-niners