CH 13 VB Manifest Destiny

situation in which people from two countries can occupy an area

• joint occupation

• emigrant

• Manifest Destiny

• decree

an adventurer of the American West

• mountain man

• prairie schooner

• Tejano

• barricade

in addition to

• plus

• establish

• resource

• constitution

a way into something or someplace

• access

• remove

• justify

• incorporate

person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else

• emigrant

• annex

• ranchero

• boom town

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

• prairie schooner

• barricade

• rancho

• forty-niner

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

• joint occupation

• emigrant

• Manifest Destiny

• decree

a Texan of Latin American, often Mexican descent

• Tejano

• ranchero

• forty-niner

• vigilante

to set up or create

• plus

• establish

• resource

• constitution

to take away

• access

• remove

• justify

• incorporate