5th grade history test lesson 140 vocab and people

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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.  


   

 
 

 
 

 
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