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Vocabulary Unit 14
Vocabulary Unit 14
Vocabulary Unit 15
Vocabulary Unit 15
Units 14/15
100
One of the first persons to explore or settle a region.
What is pioneer
100
A stream or small river that flows into a larger river.
What is tributary?
100
A broad area of flat, open land
What is plain?
100
A formal request to a tract of public land; or the tract of land as staked out.
What is claim
100
The person tells stories about himself.
Who is Daniel Boone?
200
A law or regulation especially one made by a city or town.
What is ordinance?
200
A water way made by humans and used for shipping travel, or irrigation.
What is canal?
200
To take a new area into an existing country
What is annex?
200
A California gold seeker named for 1849, when gold-rush fever peaked.
What is forty-niner?
200
The people the Thomas Jefferson sent to journey to the West.
Who are Lewis and Clark.
300
The lands west of the Appalachians belonged to the Shawnee, Cherokee , and other people who lived there.
What is proclamation?
300
Land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that the United States purchase from France in 1803.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
300
In April 18, Mexican troops fought with an American scouting party, leaving 16 dead or wounded.
What is Mexican War?
300
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded in 1830 by Joseph.
What is mormon
300
California was popular because of that?
What is the Gold Rush?
400
To organize the territory west of the Appalachians.
What is Northwest Ordinance?
400
A U.S. Government agency established in 1824 with authority to make treaties and regulate trade with the Indians.
What is Bureau of the Indians Affairs?
400
To move from one country or region to another.
What is migrate?
400
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?
400
A path where people would go to have a better life.
What is Oregon Trail