Unit 08: Manifest Destiny Vocabulary Quiz

Persecution

• Refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation
• To pursue with oppressive treatment because of religious, political or ethnic and racial factors
• To increase by gaining land

Expansion

• How one nation deals with other countries
• To increase by gaining land
• Population per square mile

Civil Disobedience

• To pursue with oppressive treatment because of religious, political or ethnic and racial factors
• Refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation
• Refusal to buy or use something as a form of protest

Economic

• Refusal to buy or use something as a form of protest
• Production and distribution of goods and money
• How one nation deals with other countries

Annexation

• How one nation deals with other countries
• To add territory
• Belief that the USA should expand from coast to coast

Settlement Pattern

• Population per square mile
• Distribution of people and culture over a given area
• Belief that the USA should expand from coast to coast

Manifest Destiny

• How one nation deals with other countries
• Belief that the USA should expand from coast to coast
• To add territory

Pioneer

• Production and distribution of goods and money
• Person who is among the first to enter or settle a region
• To add territory