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Chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lewis and Clark | Jefferson ordered Lewis to form a Corps of Discovery and Lewis invited Clark to join him and help him lead the group. |
| Northwest Passage | a quick route to the Pacific Ocean and to quick trade with Asia |
| Adam-Onis Treaty | was supposed to resolve the issue with Spanish Florida |
| Filibuster | a private military adventurer |
| Missouri Compromise | a line drawn across the bottom of Missouri that meant states below the line could practice slavery but those above could not |
| James Tallmadge | opposed slavery and proposed that Missouri be a free state from slavery |
| The Texas War for Independence | Mexican laws opposed slavery, but Texas enforced it. Therefore, Mexicans who lived in Texas pushed for independence. |
| James K. Polk | vowed to annex Texas as a slave state and take Oregon |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | a treaty which stated that Mexico gave nearly half of its land to the United States |
| The Mexican Cession | the conquest of land west of the Rio Grande |
| Forty-Niners | those who traveled to California in 1849 in hopes to find gold |
| The Compromise of 1850 | five laws that were passed in hopes to solve the issues coming from the Mexican Cession and the sectional crisis |
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