| A | B |
|---|
| manifest destiny | belief that America should go from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| mountain men | fur trappers who opened the west |
| land speculators | bought western land cheap to sell for a profit later |
| Mormons | Religious group led by Brigham Young that settled in Utah |
| Tejanos | People of Spanish heritage who lived in Texas |
| Californios | People of Spanish heritage who lived in California |
| forty-niner | A person who went to California in 1849 to find gold |
| pioneers | The first settlers of the west. |
| rendezvous | meeting of mountain men |
| conestoga wagon | covered wagons that took settlers west |
| rancho | land granted by Mexican government to encourage settlement of California |
| homestead | land intended for settlement |
