Vocabulary: Expansion Unit

Nickname of the Republic of Texas (1836)

• Bear Flag Revolt

• Mexican Cession

• Manifest Destiny

• Lone Star Republic

Person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home

• Empresario

• Mestizo

• Creole

• Tejano

Person who buys huge areas of land for low prices and then sells off small sections at high prices

• Raw land buyer

• Land developer

• Land speculator

• Manifest destiny

Person who leaves a country

• Emigrant

• Land Speculator

• Forty-niner

• Nativist

Negative opinion that is not based on facts

• Stereotyping

• Stereotype

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

Person who settles in a new country

• Mormon

• Refugee

• Immigrant

• Nativist

Fur trapper or explorer who opened up the West by finding the best trails through the Rocky Mountains

• Santa fe trail

• Oregon trail

• Manifest destiny

• Mountain men

1848 treaty ending the war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the US

• Battle of the Alamo

• Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Manifest Destiny

1836 battle in which Texans defended a church against the Mexican Army; all but 5 Texans were killed

• Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Battle of the Alamo

Cheapest deck or place on a ship

• Nativism

• Oregon Trail

• Steerage

• Prejudice