6.5-6.7 Vocab

Route to Santa Fe, New Mexico, that was used by traders in the 1800s

• Oregon trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• California Trail

• Westward Trail

To add on or take over

Trapper who explored and hunted in Oregon Territory in the early 1800s

• Tejano

• Forty-Niner

• Mountain Men

• That one guy

One of the more than 80,000 people who joined the gold rush to California in 1849

• Forty-Niner

• Gold Rusher

• Californian

• Tejano

Military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender

• Cede

• Manifest Destiny

• Siege

• Rendezvous

Route to Oregon used by wagon trains in the 1800

Person of Mexican descent born in Texas

• Chapultepec

• Tejano

• Vaquero

• Dictator

Nickname from California after it declared independence from Mexico in 1846

• The Bear Flag Republic

• The Lone Star Republic

• California thought nicknames were dumb

• Rebels

An 1836 battle between Texans and Mexicans during the Texas was for independence from Mexico

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• The Alamo

• Battle of San Jacinto

Spanish or Mexican cowhand

• Cowboy

• Vaquero

• Cowguys

• Tejano