Chapter 12 Vocabulary

One of thousands of prospective miners who traveled to California to seek gold in 1849

• forty-niner

• rancho

• Californio

• diplomat

Land granted by Mexico to settlers in the form of large estates in what is now California.

• Boomtown

• Rancho

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mountain Men

A settler moving to a new and unfamiliar land.

• Pioneer

• Siege

• Presidio

• Contiguous

A large group of covered wagons that traveled together across the North American continent

• Rendevous

• Pioneer

• Wagon Train

• forty-niner

A military post or settlement

• Rancho

• Presidio

• Boomtown

• Pioneer

A military tactic in which troops surround a city with soldiers in an attempt to take control of it.

• Seige

• Presidio

• Gadsden Purchase

• forty-niner

Connected

• Contiguous

• diplomat

• boomtown

• Californio

A sale from 1835 from Mexico to the U.S. that established the current U.S. southwest border

• Pioneer

• Gadsden Purchase

• Wagon Train

• Margin

A resident of California who was of Spanish or Mexican descent and lived there before the Gold Rush

• presidio

• margin

• Californio

• Diplomat

A person sent to another country to represent his or her country's interests

• Mountain Men

• rendezvous

• Contiguous

• Diplomat