The Annexation of Texas and Early Statehood

1. The Annexation of Texas and Early Statehood Unit 7 Vocabulary

2. Manifest Destiny The belief that the United States was clearly destined to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

4. compromise agreement in which each side gives up something it wants in order to reach an agreement

5. traitor a person who betrays another person, cause, or their country

6. treason acting to overthrow or harm one’s own government

7. political parties groups of people who help elect government officials and influence government policies

8. nominated chosen as a candidate

9. joint resolution formal expression of intent

11. corporations companies that sell shares of ownership to investors to raise money

12. offensive a major troop advance

13. reservations limited areas of land reserved for American Indians

14. cotton belt the southern region of the United States that grew most of the country’s cotton crop

16. telegraphs allowed people to communicate across vast distances by sending coded signals over wires

17. abolition an end to slavery