Social Studies Vocabulary (after Week 14)

This person rushed to California in 1849 to look for gold.

• panner

• forty-eighter

• forty-niner

• indentured servant

A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.

• cartographer

• debtor

• pilgrim

• miner

The introduction to the Constitution is called the...

• Bill of Rights

• amendment

• Parliament

• preamble

These people wanted the colonies to break away from England and become an independent country

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Neutralists

• Liberties

The miner was in the river __________ for gold.

• ceding

• panning

• conquering

• amending

The oldest permanently settled city in the U.S.

• Boston, Massachusetts

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Roanoke, Virginia

• St. Augustine, Florida

The president can ______ a bill if he does not want to sign it.

• amend

• veto

• export

• treason

The ________ created a new map of the park.

• Parliament

• miner

• cartographer

• embargo

The idea that the U.S. must expand westward to the Pacific Ocean

• Manifest Destiny

• Conquer

• Loyalists

• Reservation

The United States government removed Native Americans from their land and placed them on _________.

• ports

• St. Augustine

• reservations

• plantations