Ch. 13 Manifest Destiny VOCABULARY

The idea that the United States was going from

the East to the West coast

• Manifest Destiny

• Tejano

• Joint Occupation

• Mountain Men

a person from Mexico that claimed Texas as their land

• Tejano

• Mountain Men

• Emigrant

• Prairie Schooner

A person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority.

• mountain man

• vigilante

• 49er

• Manifest Destiny

A fortune-seeker who came to California during the gold rush in 1849.

( a person looking for gold in California)

• Forty-Niner

  (49er)

• Mountain Man

• Manifest Destiny

• Boomtown

a fast growing community

• Boomtown

• Manifest Destiny

• 49er

• Tejano

People from two countries living in 

the same region (Americans and British in Oregon)

• Boomtown

• Emigrant

• Joint Occupation

• Manifest Destiny

Person who lived in the Rocky Mountains and made a living by trapping animals for their fur.

• Mountain Man

• 49er

  Forty Niner

• Manifest Destiny

• Boomtown

A person who leaves his/her country to live somewhere else.

(hint: E for Exit)

• Tejano

• Emigrant

• Mountain Man

• Manifest Destiny

Cloth-covered wagon that was used by pioneers to travel West in the mid-1800s

• Prairie Schooner

• Mountain Man

• Joint Occupation

• Manifest Destiny

Take control of/add on

• Annex

• Prairie Schooner

• Tejano

• Emigrant