Western Expansion vocab Flashcards

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Expansion

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westward spread of the US territory,people,and cultures across North America

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Manifest Destiny

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Idea that the nation was meant to spread to the pacific

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Transcontinetal Railroad

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Railway system entending across th continent

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Homestead

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Method od aquiring a piece of US public land by living on & cultivating it

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Reservation

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where gov. relocated Native Americans to stay after taking their land

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Assimilate

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to be absorbed in American society as land owners and citizens

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Annuity

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Payments to reservation dwellers @ lest once per year

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