1. Ch. 13 Key Terms Review

2. The belief that it was the United States’ duty and right to spread their ideas of democracy all the way to the Pacific Ocean

3. MANIFEST DESTINY

4. People who follow their own independent course in life

5. RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST

6. Adventurous men who hiked through Oregon’s vast forests, trapping animals and living off the land

7. MOUNTAIN MEN

8. A ruler with absolute power and authority

9. DICTATOR

10. The Indian and Mexican cowhands who worked on the California ranches

11. VAQUEROS

12. Able to produce enough for one’s own needs

13. SELF-SUFFICIENT

14. To add on

15. ANNEX

16. People of Mexican descent born in Texas

17. TEJANOS

18. A place that is safe from persecution

19. REFUGE

20. When enemy forces try to capture a city or fort, often by surrounding and bombarding it

21. SIEGE

22. Self-appointed law enforcers

23. VIGILANTES

24. The old Spanish mission in Texas were Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged Texans in 1836

25. ALAMO

26. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith in 1830

27. MORMONS

28. The name for the 80,000+ people who made the long journey to California for the gold rush in 1849

29. FORTY-NINERS

30. A French word meaning “get- together”; where mountain men and fur traders would meet in the summer

31. RENDEZVOUS

32. To give up

33. CEDE

34. Hanged without a legal trial

35. LYNCHED