lesson 5 Flashcards
Alamo
an old mission in San Antonio Texas where the Mexican army defeated the Texan army in a battle for Texas independence.
annex
to add a piece of land to a larger territory.
California gold rush.
the migration or movement of the people to California in 1849 to look for gold.
canal Era
period between 1825 and 1849 when many canals or inland waterways were built in the United states
forty-niners
people who traveled to California in 1849 to search for gold.
free state
a state that did not allow slavery.
frontier
the boundary between settled and unsettled territories.
Gadsden purchase.
an action were the U.S bought southern Arizona and the rest of New Mexico from mexico for 10 million
homestead Act
an 1862 law that gave 160 acre plot on the western planes to anyone willing to farm the land.
homesteader
a person willing to take over land in the frontier area and build a home on it.
lone star republic
the name given to Texas after it declared its independence from Mexico in 1836
Louisiana purchase
an action in which the united states bought a huge area of land around Mississippi river and father west it was bought from France for 15 million
Manifest Destiny
the belief of many Americans that westward expansion was a right given to them by God.
Merchant vessels
ships that carry goods from one place to another trading ship.
Mexican Cession
This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado
migration
a large movement of people or animals
Missouri Compromise
admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation.
Monroe Doctrine
a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
nationalism
identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
neutral
taking no official side in the political disagreements
nomadic
moving from place to place
Northwest Territory
land northwest of the original 13 states that became Americans territory as part of the 1783 treaty of Paris.
Oregon Country
the northwestern part of the united states added to the nation territory in the late 1840s
prospector
a person looking for mineral riches as during the California gold rush.
