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5th grade history test lesson 140 vocab and people
Question | Answer |
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annexation | adding more territory to a country |
Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States could and should expand across the continent |
dispute | to fight with words; to argue |
pass | a break or opening that makes it easier to travel across a mountain range |
Continental Divide | a stretch of high land along the Rocky Mountains that separates streams and rivers that flow east from those that flow west |
forty-niner | a person who went to look for gold in California in 1849 |
boomtown | a town offering many chances to make money and filled with people just arriving |
free state | a state that did not allow slavery |
slave state | a state that permitted slavery |
Union | another word for the United States; the states that remained united under the Constitution during the Civil War |
secede | for a state to break away from the rest of the country |
Confederate | having to do with the states that fought against the Union during the Civil War |
Stephen Austin | American settler in Texas |
Santa Anna | Mexican president and general defeated at San Jacinto |
Sam Houston | leader of Texas troups against Mexicans, later president of Texas |
Brigham Young | Mormon leader; settled in Utah |
James K. Polk | president during the Texas annexation |
missionary | someone who travels to a foreign country to do religious work |
Henry Clay | proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 |
Jefferson Davis | president of the confederacy during the civil war |
Mexican War | because of the war, Mexico lost almost half its territory to the United States |
Dred Scott | enslaved African who sued for his freedom after living in a free state. His case made it to the Supreme Court, which said enslaved people were not citizens but property. |
John Brown | abolitionist who led a rebellion at Harpers Ferry, supported by Northerners in his cause. |