Manifest Destiny

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America
• The belief that their destiny was to manifest
• A religious term used to explain how to be saved

Someone who lives in the mountains and hunts or traps animals.

• Miner
• Mountain Man
• Boom Town
• Prospector

Which group took the law into their own hands in gold rush society?

• merchants

• miners

• Mormons

• vigilantes

Person who leaves his or her country to live elsewhere

• Prairie Schooner
• Telegraph 
• Mountain Man
• Emigrant

A canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s

• Rancho
• Morse Code
• Religion 
• Prairie Schooner

To add a territory to one's own territory

• Telegraph 
• Forty-Niner
• Manifest Destiny 
• Annex

A ranch, especially the large estates set up by Mexicans in the American West

• Rancho 
• Telegraph 
• Manifest Destiny 
• Annex

Fortune seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush

• Prairie Schooner 
• Forty-Niner
• Morse Code
• Emigrant 

A fast-growing community

• Boom Town 
• Annex
• Mountain Man
• Forty-Niner 

How did the U.S and Britain avoid fighting a war over Oregon?

• Britain agreed to let the U.S. have it

• the U.S. agreed to let theBritain have it

• Spain took control

• joint occupation