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Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion 2
Question | Answer |
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Frontier | A place that has never been seen |
Manifest Destiny | The belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
Annnex/Annexation | To add land to a country |
Cede/Cession | To give land to another country |
Caravan | A group traveling together on a long journey. The wagons would travel in a straight single line and then circle at night for protection |
CONESTOGA: | A covered wagon used to carry freight across the prairies, covered wagon used to carry freight across the prairies |
Prairie Schooner | Another word for covered wagon, so called because they looked like ships sailing across a sea of grass |
Homesteading | To settle on public land to use as a home. |
RANCHO: | huge properties for raising livestock |
BOOMTOWN: | communities that quickly grow in population |
MOUNTAIN MAN: a person who lived in the mountains and was usually a trapper or a hunter. | |
PIONEERS: someone who went to an area before it was settled. . | |
FORTY-NINER: people who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. | |
EMIGRANT: a person who leaves to go live somewhere else. |