Ch. 11 Westward Expansion Terms

What is the term used to describe the shared control of a territory by two countries?

• Annex

• Joint occupation

• Decree

• Barricade

Who were the people that moved to California in 1849 in search of gold?

• Tejanos

• Forty-niners

• Vigilantes

• Rancheros

What is a large farm or estate in Spanish-speaking regions, especially in the Americas, called?

• Rancho

• Prairie schooner

• Boomtown

• Annex

What term describes a person of Mexican descent living in Texas?

• Emigrant

• Tejano

• Ranchero

• Mountain man

What is the term for a law or order issued by a government authority?

• Manifest Destiny

• Decree

• Barricade

• Annex

What is the term for a person who moves from one country or region to another?

• Emigrant

• Vigilante

• Ranchero

• Forty-niner

What is the term for a person who takes the law into their own hands?

• Mountain man

• Vigilante

• Forty-niner

• Tejano

What is the term for a covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid-1800s?

• Prairie schooner

• Rancho

• Boomtown

• Annex

What is the term for a person who lives in the mountains, often as a trapper or explorer?

• Mountain man

• Ranchero

• Emigrant

• Forty-niner

What is the term for the belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable?

• Manifest Destiny

• Joint occupation

• Decree

• Barricade