MANIFEST DESTINY VOCABULARY

Communication using electronic lines from one place to another.

• Morse Code

• Telegraph Lines

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroads

People who arrive and stay in one place/area

• Settlers

• Pioneer

People who are first to discover and settle in a new area.

• Pioneers

• Settlers

This advancement in transportation replaced wagons.

• Oregon Trail

• Morse Code

• Telegraph Lines

• Transcontinental Railroads

The growth of a city;

when people move from

countryside to city

• Urbanization

• Innovation

A person who is

against slavery

• Abolitionist

• Entrepreneur

To speak for someone, to

support a cause

• Advocate

• Curator

To change or re-structure

something

• Reform

• Incarcerate

To give up

• Cede

• Sedition

Define Manifest Destiny

• someone is first to settle a region or enter into a project

• idea that the United States should expand to include the territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

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

• when people from all over the world went to California in search of riches