Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Fortune-seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush

• Forty-niner

• Emigrants

• Boomtown

• Vigilante

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

• Annex

• Rancho

• Ranchero

• Tejano

A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent

• Rancho

• Tejano

• Annex

• Ranchero

To add a territory to one's own territory

• Annex

• Rancho

• Tejano

• Ranchero

An adventurer of the American West

• Prairie schooner

• Mountain man

• Joint occupation

• Ranchero

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

• Prairie schooner

• Joint occupation

• Mountain man

• Manifest Destiny

To block off

• Barricade

• Tejano

• Ranchero

• Mountain man

Person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else

• Emigrants

• Vigilante

• Boomtown

• Forty-niner

The belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

• Joint occupation

• Manifest Destiny

• Prairie schooner

• Mountain man

A fast-growing community

• Emigrants

• Forty-niner

• Ranchero

• Boomtown