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Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Westward Expansion Vocabulary. FRONTIER : a place that has never been seen. MANIFEST DESTINY: the belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ANNEX/ANNEXATION : to add land to a country

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Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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  1. Westward Expansion Vocabulary

  2. FRONTIER: a place that has never been seen. • MANIFEST DESTINY: the belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

  3. ANNEX/ANNEXATION: to add land to a country • CEDE/ CESSION: to give land to another country

  4. CARAVAN: a group traveling together on a long journey.The wagons would travel in a straight single line and then circle at night for protection. • CONESTOGA: a covered wagon used to carry freight across the prairies. • PRAIRIE SCHOONER: another word for covered wagon, so called because they looked like ships sailing across a sea of grass.

  5. HOMESTEADING: to settle on public land to use as a home. RANCHO: huge properties for raising livestock BOOMTOWN: communities that quickly grow in population

  6. MOUNTAIN MAN: a person who lived in the mountains and was usually a trapper or a hunter. • PIONEERS: someone who went to an area before it was settled. • FORTY-NINER: people who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. • EMIGRANT: a person who leaves to go live somewhere else.

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