3rd Quarter Vocabulary Review

A journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose

• Expedition
• Manifest Destiny
• Immigration
• Emigration

Several routes over which thousands of Cherokee and other Indian peoples were forced to march and along which many died during the late 1830s to be resettled west of the Mississippi River largely in what is now Oklahoma

• Trail of Tears
• Manifest Destiny
• Secede
• Gold Rush

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Manifest Destiny
• Trail of Tears
• Monroe Doctrine
• Missouri Compromise

The belief that slavery should be abolished.

• Abolitionism
• Rancheros
• Cede
• Tariff

A person who farms or works on a ranch, especially in the southwestern US and Mexico.

• Rancheros
• Vequeros
• Farmers
• Missionaries

The route over which settlers traveled to the West Coast in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.

• Oregon Trail
• Continental Divide
• Northwest Passage
• Highway 24

The act of or adding to something larger, especially the incorporation of new territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.

• Annexation
• Cede
• Secede
• Immigration

Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

• Secede
• Cede
• Tariff
• Abolitionism

A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.

• Missionaries
• Rancheros
• Vaqueros
• Thomas Jefferson

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

• Tariff
• Sales Tax
• Secede
• Cede