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Question	Answer
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.