Life in the West [Vocabulary]

the position of a person, either socially or professionally...

• legacy

• status

• immigrant

• rancho

a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Oregon Trail

• rancho

• immigrant

A Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped and saved the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Oregon Trail

• Sacagawea

• immigrant

a person’s or a group’s impact on future generations; how someone or something is remembered

• legacy

• status

• immigrant

• rancho

this word meant, "Gold Mountain," and was what people in China called California in 1848.

• forty-niners

• Gam Saam

• Californio

• rancho

discovered gold in California while building a sawmill for John Sutter and started the "gold rush."

• Sacagawea

• Gam Saam

• Californio

• James Marshall

the people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849

• Californio

• forty-niners

• Mormons

• rancho

a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

• Californio

• forty-niners

• Mormons

• rancho

members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

• Californio

• forty-niners

• Mormons

• rancho

an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Columbia River in Oregon

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Oregon Trail

• Californio

• forty-niners