Manifest Destiny Vocab

a military post or settlement

• presidio

• seige

• margin

• annex

a military tactic in which troops surround a city with soldiers in an attempt to take control of it

• manifest destiny

• seige

• margin

• pioneer

the amount by which something is won or lost

• manifest destiny

• presidio

• margin

• annex

to add

• cede

• pioneer

• exodus

• annex

to give up

• cede

• individualism

• exodus

• annex

a mass departure

• cede

• individualism

• exodus

• wagon train

the idea that the United States had the right and the obligation to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean

• pioneer

• mountain men

• manifest destiny

• wagon train

a large group of covered wagons that traveled together across the North American continent as American pioneers moved westward

• pioneer

• mountain men

• manifest destiny

• wagon train

a settler moving to a new and unfamiliar land

• pioneer

• mountain men

• insurrection

• rancho

one of the thousands of prospective miners who traveled to California seeking gold in 1849

• forty niner

• prospector

• boomtown

• rancho