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KS History Key Terms
Chapter 3, Lessons 1 - 3
Question | Answer |
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present or available in large amounts | abundant |
relating to plants or plant life | botanical |
a person skilled in making maps | cartographer |
a flowing together of two or more streams | confluence |
having enough food or resources to live | subsistence |
not safe or well suited for living in; unlivable | uninhabitable |
to add or take over new territory | annex |
to absorb or conform to the customs and attitudes of a particular cultural group | assimilate |
someone who leaves one country and settles in another | emigrant |
the right of a government to take private property for public use | eminent domain |
the belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to control all of the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean | Manifest Destiny |
someone sent to do work for a religion, like convincing people to join the religion or helping the sick | missionary |
to restrict the amount of goods available to buy or use | ration |
an area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans to live on | reservation |
relating to health, cleanliness, disposal of garbage or waste | sanitation |
a person or political movement that argues for ending slavery | abolitionist |
a crop that is grown for profit rather than for use by the grower | cash crops |
the practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion | expansionist |
in colonial times, a person who agreed to work, for a period of four to 10 years, for someone who paid his or her travel expenses to a colony | indentured servant |
whether something is right or wrong | morality |
a farm designed to grow crops on a large scale | plantation |
a political concept that gives authority over a state or territory to the people who live there, especially concerning slavery | popular sovereignty |
to cancel or overturn a law | repeal |
laws that defined slaves as the property of slave owners and which greatly limited black freedom | slave codes |