Vocabulary chapters 12 & 13

A candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state is a...

• favorite son

• bureaucracy

• Mountain Man

• Decree

Adding the Louisiana Territory and Texas to the United States is an example of...

• annex

• joint occupation

• spoils system

• emigrant

the largest number of something, but less than the majority is...

• mudslinging

• relocate

• barricade

• plurality

barricade means to...

• add a territory to one's own territory

• the belief that the United States was destined by God to extend it boundaries

• block off

• a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad

spreading gossip and lies about your opponent is...

• favorite son

• mudslinging

• decree

• the largest number of something, but less than the majority

an official order (law)

• decree

• barricade

• annex

• relocate

a system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected officials

• bureaucracy

• Manifest Destiny

• plurality

• favorite son

People of the 1800s believed that God wanted the United States to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean. What is this known as?

• annex

• spoils system

• mountain man

• manifest destiny

someone who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else

• mountain man

• emigrant

• favorite son

• decree

Spoils systems

• the practice of handing out government jobs to supporters...etc.

• mudslinging

• relocate

• joint occupation