Chapter 9 Vocabulary

the region that forms the edge of a settled part of a country

• frontier

• expansion

• annex

owner of a ranch under the Mexican government

• Ranchero

• mountain man

• vigilante

widening of a country's borders

• expansion

• annex

• cede

fur trappers and hunters of the Northwest

• rancheros

• mountain men

• Forty-Niners

one person in complete control of the government

• dictatorship

• siege

• vigilante

a military attack where an army surrounds a city or a fort

• siege

• annex

• cede

to add a territory to a country

• annex

• cede

• expansion

to give up land to another country

• cede

• annex

• siege

people who came to California in search of gold

• Forty-Niners

• Vigilantes

• Rancheros

self-appointed law enforcer; someone who takes the law into their own hands

• Vigilante

• Mountain Man

• Ranchero