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Ch 12 Textbook Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annex | to add a territory to one's own country |
| Cede | to gice up by treaty |
| Decree | an order or decision given by one in authority |
| Emigrant | a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere |
| Forty-niners | people who went to Califorina during the gold rush of 1849 |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea popular in the US during the 1800s that the country must sxpand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean |
| Mountain Man | a frontiersman living in the wilderness as in the Rocky Mountains |