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5th grade history test lesson 140 vocab and people

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