New Mexico History: Chapter 4 Vocab 100% Correct

New Mexico History: Chapter 4 Vocab 100% Correct annex to add or join with assimilate to absorb or conform to the customs and attitudes of a particular cultural group castas people of mixed races in Spanish colonial society cede to hand over criollo in Spanish colonial society, a pureblooded Spaniard born in the Americas Manifest Destiny the 19th century belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to own all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean peninsulares in Spanish colonial society, the offspring of Spaniards and Native Americans reservation an area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans ricos the upper class, or wealthy class in Spanish colonial society sectionalism the belief that the needs of one's own region outweigh the needs of the nation slave codes laws that defined slaves as the property of slave owners and which greatly limited black freedoms social class an informal grouping of people based on common characteristics, such as wealth, education, culture, and sometimes race treason the act of trying to overthrow one's government unstable frequently changing