Ch.11 Vocabulary Practice

the control and settlement of an area by two or more countries or groups

• Mountain men

• emigrants

• Joint occupation

• Prairie Schooners

a canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s

• prairie schooner

• emigrants

• Tejanos

• annex

an adventurer of the American West

• ranchos

• Tejanos

• emigrants

• Mountain men

person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else

• ranchos

• emigrants

• Prairie schooners

• barricade

a Texan of Latin, often Mexican, descent

• annex

• ranchos

• Tejanos

• decree

the belief popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

• Manifest Destiny

• annex

• barricade

• Joint occupation

to add a territory to one’s own territory

• Joint occupation

• Manifest Destiny

• barricade

• annex

official order

• ranchos

• decree

• barricade

• emigrants

to block off

• Tejanos

• annex

• barricade

• Prairie Schooners

ranch, especially the large estates set up by Mexicans in the American West

• ranchos

• Tejanos

• forty-niners

• vigilantes