Oregon Trail Vocabulary

an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages

• salamander

• telegraph

• ferry

• wagon train

the eating of human flesh by another human being

• contagious

• upward mobility

• manifest destiny

• cannibalism

the belief or doctrine that it was the destiny of the U.S to expand it's territory

• manifest destiny

• expansion

• journey

• muskrat

noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals

• salamander

• muskrat

• vermin

• contagious

a treaty signed with France in 1803

• territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Continent

a part of the earth's surface (Land or Sea)

• overland

• journey

• region

• continent

movement from one social level to a higher one

• upward mobility

• expansion

• rebirth

• journey

a train of wagons and horses

• ferry

• pioneers

• wagon train

• muskrat

any tract of land: region or district

• continent

• wagon train

• undertook

• territory

a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region

• pioneer

• muskrat

• cannibalism

• salamander