Vocab 2/20-2/23

Question 1

Barricade

Answer 1

to block off

Question 2

Annex

Answer 2

to add a territory to one’s territory

Question 3

Decree

Answer 3

official order

Question 4

Vigilante

Answer 4

person who acts as police, judge and jury without formal legacy authority

Question 5

Emigrant

Answer 5

person who leaves his/her country to live somewhere else

Question 6

Manifest Destiny

Answer 6

belief that the us was destin by god to extend its boundaries to the pacific ocean

Question 7

Ranchero

Answer 7

rancher, owner of a ranch

Question 8

Prairie Schooner

Answer 8

canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid 1800s

Question 9

Boomtown

Answer 9

fast-growing community

Question 10

Joint Occupation

Answer 10

a situation in which people from 2 countries can occupy an area

Question 11

Forty-Niner

Answer 11

a fortune seeker who came to california during the gold rush

Question 12

Rancho

Answer 12

a ranch, especially the large estates set up bu Mexicans in the American West

Question 13

Mountain Men

Answer 13

an adventurer of the American West

Question 14

Tejano

Answer 14

Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent