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Westward Expansion
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| frontier | the land that forms the farthest extent of a nations settled regions |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that the United States was destined, or meant, to extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| rendezvou | French word meaning a meeting where fur trappers would exchange furs for supplies |
| dictatorship | one-person rule |
| siege | an attack in which one force surrounds a city or fort |
| annex | add on |
| cede | give up |
| polygamy | the practice of having more than one wife at a time |
| vigilantes | self-appointed law enforcers |
| popular sovereignty | the idea that people in a territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representatives decide |
| secede | withdraw , or separate from |
| propaganda | false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause |
| civil war | a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country |
| Dred Scott | a slave who sued in court for his freedom arguing that he was free because he had lived where slavery was illegal (he lost) |
| John Brown | abolitionist who attacked a US armory to seize guns to give to slaves in a revolt against slavery (he was hung) |
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