Chapter 12 - Manifest Destiny Flashcards
Emigrant
A person who leaves a country to live somewhere else
Joint Occupation
Two nations sharing the same peice of land
Rendezvous
A meeting
Vigilante
A person who took the law into their own hands
Annex
To take control of
Boomtown
Towns or communities that were built during the gold rush almost “over night”
Manifest Destiny
Belief the US must expand its territory to the Pacific Coast
49ers
What people who went to California in search of gold were called
Steps of Manifest Destiny
Infest, Multiply, Take Over
Who infested the oregon terriotry?
Green Mountain Boys
What were the green mountain boys considered as?
rich, risky, strong, tough ,brave
How did the green mounain Boys make it safe to infest?
They sent fronteirsman to collect and sell beaver pelts at rendevous, once they learned to survive - more people came and made a pathway through the rocky mountains
who was involved in the goldrush
James Marshall, John Sutter, Chinese, Mexicans
What happened at the gold rush
gold was discovered, $500,000,000, mexicans are upset they sold california to the US
Who made the first jeans
Levi Strauss
