Unit 4 vocabulary

the belief that it was the United States' right and duty to spread across the North American continent

• Annex

• Diplomacy

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican American War

• Territory

Spanish-speaking people who, in the 1800s, lived in parts of the United States that previously belonged to Mexico

• Mormons

• oregon Trail

• rancho

• Irrigation

• Mexicanos

a journey made from 1804 to 1806 by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase

• Texas war for independence

• Forty-niners

• immmigrant

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• legacy

the art of conducting negotiations with other countries

• Annex

• Diplomacy

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican American War

• Territory

a system for bringing water to farmland by artificial means, such as using a dam to trap water and ditches to channel it to fields

• Mormons

• oregon Trail

• rancho

• Irrigation

• Mexicanos

the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation

• Texas war for independence

• Forty-niners

• immmigrant

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• legacy

a region of land; also, a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor

• Annex

• Diplomacy

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican American War

• Territory

the people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849

• Terxas war for independence

• Forty-niners

• immmigrant

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• legacy

a land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops

• Mormons

• oregon Trail

• rancho

• Irrigation

• Mexicanos

the war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California

• Annex

• Diplomacy

• Manifest Destiny

• Mexican American War

• Territory