Chapter 13 Vocabulary

The term given to explorer traders that created trails into the frontier and the Rocky Mountains.

• pioneers
• fur trappers
• mountain men
• frontier scouts

This person helped to open up the West by heading out the Santa Fe Trail with wagons of merchandise to trade.

• Zebulon Pike
• Kit Carson
• John C. Frémont
• William Becknell

This was the name of a person that moved to California in search of gold

• Gold Digger
• Miner
• 49er
• Prospector

This refers to extending the nation beyond its existing borders.

• Isolationism
• Nationalism
• Colonialism
• Expansionism

These people  set up a mission in Oregon in hopes of helping Native Americans in that area reform to Christianity.

• Explorers in Oregon
• Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

• Farmers in Oregon
• Politicians in Oregon

This person led Texan forces against the Spanish at the Alamo, in search of Texas independence.

• Sam Houston
• William B. Travis
• James Bowie
• Stephen F. Austin

This type of government is where one person is the ruler.

• Oligarchy
• Theocracy
• Dictatorship

• Anarchy

This term refers to a person that takes the law into his own hands to keep the peace.

• Vigilante
• Peacekeeper
• Law enforcer
• Bystander

This term refers to the land that forms the farthest extent of a nation’s settled region.

• frontier
• outskirts
• periphery
• border

This person helped to open the West by heading there as a fur trader.

• John Jacob Astor
• Kit Carson
• Daniel Boone
• Lewis and Clark