SS EUS Unit 4 - Vocab

a person who travels in search of geographical or scientific information

• nomads

• pioneers

• explorers

a place where people establish a community

• immigration

• settlement

• tribes

to have a strong desire to do something

• desire

• want

• need

• motivation

a person who was contracted by the Mexican government

to bring colonists to settle in Texas

• warrrior

• pioneer

• agent

• empresario

provides individuals with jobs, income, a sense of purpose,

and opportunities to improve their economic circumstances over time

• exchange

• settlement opportunity

• economic opportunity

• geographic opportunity

the act of becoming larger

• expansion

• examination

• exploring

a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

• traveler

• visitor

• immigrant

topographical features, such as rivers and mountains,

climate, and the natural resources of a region

• economic factors

• geographic factors

• maps

• cartography

a long journey involving travel

• immigration

• vacation

• voyage

• empresario

The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic

• Columbian exchange

• North American exchange

• Hawaiian

  exchange

• Mexican exchange