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Denise Warren
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Purchase | In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson arranged to purchase 530 million acres of land in central North America from the French leader Napoleon for $15 million. |
| Sacajawea | Indian guide and interpreter; also Sacagawea. She joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in what is now North Dakota and guided their travels through the wilderness and across the Rockies 1804–06 |
| Manifest Destiny | belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | an agreement between the United States and the Native Americans signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. |
| Santa Fe Trail | 1.A historic route, established in the 1820s, from St. Louis in Missouri to Santa Fe in New Mexico. Merchants and settlers used it until the Santa Fe Railroad was built in the 1870s |
| Oregon Trail | 1.A route across the central and western US used esp. from 1840 until 1860 by settlers moving west. It extends about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from Missouri to Oregon |
| Mormons | The Mormons were founded in the early nineteenth century. Joseph Smith founded the religion in western New York in the 1820s based on the revelations-Book of Mormons. Mormons were resented because of their unorthodox religious views and exclusivism |
| Joseph Smith | The founder of the Latter Day Saint movement |
| Brigham Young | United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877) |
| Texas Revolution | Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was a military conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas. |
| Republic of Texas | The Republic of Texas was an independent state in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846. |
| Annex | 2.Add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation |
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