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5th grade history test lesson 140 vocab and people

QuestionAnswer
annexation adding more territory to a country
Manifest Destiny the belief that the United States could and should expand across the continent
dispute to fight with words; to argue
pass a break or opening that makes it easier to travel across a mountain range
Continental Divide a stretch of high land along the Rocky Mountains that separates streams and rivers that flow east from those that flow west
forty-niner a person who went to look for gold in California in 1849
boomtown a town offering many chances to make money and filled with people just arriving
free state a state that did not allow slavery
slave state a state that permitted slavery
Union another word for the United States; the states that remained united under the Constitution during the Civil War
secede for a state to break away from the rest of the country
Confederate having to do with the states that fought against the Union during the Civil War
Stephen Austin American settler in Texas
Santa Anna Mexican president and general defeated at San Jacinto
Sam Houston leader of Texas troups against Mexicans, later president of Texas
Brigham Young Mormon leader; settled in Utah
James K. Polk president during the Texas annexation
missionary someone who travels to a foreign country to do religious work
Henry Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Jefferson Davis president of the confederacy during the civil war
Mexican War because of the war, Mexico lost almost half its territory to the United States
Dred Scott enslaved African who sued for his freedom after living in a free state. His case made it to the Supreme Court, which said enslaved people were not citizens but property.
John Brown abolitionist who led a rebellion at Harpers Ferry, supported by Northerners in his cause.
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