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Chapter 11

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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.  
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Northwest Passage   a quick route to the Pacific Ocean and to quick trade with Asia  
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Adam-Onis Treaty   was supposed to resolve the issue with Spanish Florida  
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Filibuster   a private military adventurer  
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Missouri Compromise   a line drawn across the bottom of Missouri that meant states below the line could practice slavery but those above could not  
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James Tallmadge   opposed slavery and proposed that Missouri be a free state from slavery  
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The Texas War for Independence   Mexican laws opposed slavery, but Texas enforced it. Therefore, Mexicans who lived in Texas pushed for independence.  
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James K. Polk   vowed to annex Texas as a slave state and take Oregon  
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   a treaty which stated that Mexico gave nearly half of its land to the United States  
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The Mexican Cession   the conquest of land west of the Rio Grande  
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Forty-Niners   those who traveled to California in 1849 in hopes to find gold  
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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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