Chapter 13- Social Studies

Question 1

Joint Occupation-

Answer 1

People from two countries living in the same region. The United States and Great Britain agreed to joint occupation.

Question 2

Mountain Men-

Answer 2

Person who lived in the Rocky Moutains and made his living by trapping animals for their fur. These men trapped beavers for their skins, they also traded with the Native Americans.

Question 3

Emigrants-

Answer 3

People who leave their country.

Question 4

Prairie Schooners-

Answer 4

Cloth-covered wagon that was used by pioneers to travel West in the mid 1800s. From a distance they looked like a ship called schooners.

Question 5

Manifest Destiny-

Answer 5

The idea that the United States was meant to spread freedom from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 6

What did America gain from the Adams-Onis treaty?-

Answer 6

Land from Spain.

Question 7

Why did the mountain men give up trapping fur?-

Answer 7

Theey trapped so many beavers, there weren’t many left. Also styles were beginning to change.

Question 8

Why were the Whitmans killed?-

Answer 8

The Whitmans brought the disease measles to the Cayuse Indians, and the Indians couldn’t fight the measles. So they killed them before it spread more.

Question 9

Tejano-

Answer 9

a Texan of Hispanic, and often Mexican, descent. In 1821 Mexico, won its freedom from Spain. Mexico owned Texas. Mexican citizens who lived there were called Tejanos.

Question 10

Decree-

Answer 10

Official order. Mexicans made a decree. or official order, that no more Americans could come Texas.

Question 11

Barricade-

Answer 11

Block off. Santa Anna was not going to give up. He marched is army to San Antonio. It found a group of Americans soldiers barricaded, in a mission building called the Alamo.

Question 12

Annex-

Answer 12

Take control of.

Question 13

Rancho-

Answer 13

Ranch especially the large estates set up by mexicans in the American West. When Californoria came a part of Mexico in 1821, Mexicans bought mission lands. They set up ranchos.

Question 14

Rancher-

Answer 14

Rancher, owner of a rancho.

Question 15

Forty-Niner-

Answer 15

Person who came to California to foind gold in 1849. The 300 immigrants from China were the first large group of Asians to sette in America. Some of them started the Chinese American communty in California. Taken together, all these groups made up the forty-niners. That is because most got there in 1849.

Question 16

Boomtown-

Answer 16

A fast-growing community. When miners rushed to new areas to look for gold, they built new villages. They grew quickly into citites. Such places were called boomtowns. Cities like San Fransico grew quickly.

Question 17

Vigilante-

Answer 17

Person who takes it on himself to braing law and order to a place.