U8: Westward Expansion Vocab Quiz

A Texan of Mexican decent.

• Mexican-American

• Tejano

• Empresario

• Ranchero

A person or small group who take the law into their own hands.

• Thieves

• Vagrents

• Vigilantes

• Tejanos

A person who had been granted the right to settle in Texas in exchange for bringing more people to settle the land & make improvements.

• Tejano

• Ranchero

• Pioneer

• Empresario

1. A man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, especially a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early American West.

• Pioneer

• Mountain Man

• Explorer

• Archeologist

A town that has grown very rapidly as a result of sudden prosperity during the gold rush.

• Boomtown

• Village

• Rural Society

• Countrytown

Those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold.

• 1800's Society

• Gold Seekers

• Forty-Niners

• The 1848ers

A person who farms or works on a ranch in the Mexican Territory.

• Ranchero

• Tejano

• Farmer

• Settler

A once a year gathering of mountain men to share their stories and buy/sell goods.

• Family Reunion

• Rendezvous

• Gathering

• The Yearly

To leave one country or region and settle in another.

• Annex

• Cede

• Emigrate

• Manifest Destiny

The belief that it was America's "God given right" to claim and settle all of the land in North America to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Emigrate

• Annex

• Cede