Unit 10 Vocab Review

Fill in the blank: Annex means to ______.

• Annex means to add or attach.

• Annex means to remove or detach.

• Annex means to ignore or overlook.

• Annex means to separate or divide.

A town with great population increase in a short amount of time is a _______.

• boomtown

• exodus

• forty-niner

• prospector

Fill in the blank: Contiguous means ______.

• Contiguous means adjacent or touching.

• Contiguous means separated by a distance.

• Contiguous means randomly scattered.

• Contiguous means connected.

A mass departure is an

• exodus

• annex

• siege

• margin

Someone who traveled to California seeking gold is a ______.

• forty-niner

• margin

• wagon train

• mountain man

The idea that the US had the right to expand its land to the Pacific Ocean is called_______.

• annex

• manifest destiny

• siege

• exodus

_______ is the amount by which something is won or lost.

• pioneer

• margin

• exodus

• annex

_______________ were American fur trappers and explorers who led the movement westward.

• prospectors

• pioneers

• forty-niners

• mountain men

A ____________ is a settler moving to a new and unfamiliar land.

• prospector

• pioneer

• wagon train

• forty-niner

A __________________ is a person searching for valuable resources such as gems or precious metals.

• forty-niner

• pioneer

• prospector

• mountain man