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Vocabulary 14
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Vocabulary 15
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one of the first persons to explore or settle a region
What is a pioneer
100
a water way made by humans and used for shipping travel, or irrigation
What is a canal
100
war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848
What is Mexican war
100
One of a group of people who move with their flocks and herds as the seasons change to find water and pasture
What is Nomad
200
A law or regulation especially one made by a city or town
What is Ordinance
200
land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that the United States purchased from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana purchase
200
to move from one country or region to another
What is migrate
300
the lands west of the Appalachians belonged to the Shawnee, Cherokee, and other people who lived there
What is the Proclamation of 1763
300
U.S. government agency established in 1824 with authority to make treaties and regulate trade with the Indians
What is Bureau of Indians
300
formal request to own a tract of public land
What is claim
400
to organize the territory west of the Appalachians
What is the northwest Ordinance
400
broad area of flat, open land
What is plain
400
California gold seeker named for 1849, when gold rush fever peaked
What is Forty-Niner
500
stream or small river that flows into a larger river
What is tributary
500
to take a new area into an existing country
What is Annex
500
member of a church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith
What is Mormon