Oklahoma History Ch. 7 Vocab Review

To add on , such as adding territory to an existing town, city, or state.

• annex

• buffer zone

• California Trails

• caravan

• immigrants

One who moves to a new country to settle there.

• annex

• buffer zone

• immigrants

• caravan

• California Trails

A neutral area between two larger areas with different uses.

• caravan

• immigrants

• annex

• buffer zone

• California Trails

A wagon trail from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, California, in 1849.

• California Trails

• caravan

• annex

• buffer zone

• immigrants

A procession of wagons traveling in single file.

• California Trails

• annex

• immigrants

• buffer zone

• caravan

A railroad that spans the continent from ocean to ocean.

• station

• contract

• transcontinental railroad

• steamboats

• expansion

A regular stopping place along a stagecoach line.

• expansion

• steamboats

• transcontinental railroad

• station

• contract

A formal, legally binding agreement between two or more pirates.

• transcontinental railroad

• expansion

• steamboats

• contract

• station

The action of becoming larger or more extensive.

• steamboats

• expansion

• contract

• station

• transcontinental railroad

A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.

• contract

• steamboats

• transcontinental railroad

• immigrants