Hw Ids Pg 471-506

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Eamon Barkhordarian 4/21/08 Helsaple 4th period Social Studies

HOMEWORK I.D’S pg.471-506 Oregon Country (471)- The huge area that lay between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California. It included all of what is now Oregon, Washington, and Idaho plus parts of Montana and Wyoming. This region also contained about half of what is now the Canadian Province of British Columbia. John Jacob Astor (472)- An American merchant of New York. He established several trading posts in the eastern United States. He organized the American Fur Company, which soon became the largest of the fur companies in America. Rendezvous (472)- A meeting. In late summer, the mountain men gathered for a rendezvous. Jim Beckwourth (472)- An African American mountain man from Virginia. He explored Wyoming’s Green River. Jedidiah Smith (472)- A mountain man. With Robert Stuart, they found the South Pass. The South Pass is a broad break through the Rockies. Dr. Marcus Whitman (473)- One person who went with his wife Narcissa who went to the Oregon Trail. They built a mission among the Cayuse people near the present site of Walla Walla, Washington. Manifest Destiny (474)- the doctrine or belief prevalent in the 19th century that the United States had the God-given right to expand into and possess the whole of the North American continent. O’Sullivan declared that is was America’s Manifest Destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which the Providence had given us. El Camino Real (492)- “The King’s Highway.” The missions that extended from San Diego to Sonoma were along a route named the El Camino Real. The El Camino Real was named for the king of Spain who ordered the missions built. Forty Niners (501)- Those who arrived in 1849 looking for gold. Nearly 100,000 people came to California looking for gold in 1848 and 1849. Joseph Smith (506)- The founder of the Mormon Church. These visions used to build the Mormon Church also inspired him to build an ideal society.