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History Alive Chapter 16
Life in the West
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History
8th Grade
04/07/2011

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mission
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a place established my missionaries for their work
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rancho
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a grant of land made by the mexican government
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Oregon Trail
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an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River in Oregon
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homestead
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a plot of land where pioneers could build a home, farm or ranch
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Mormons
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member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints
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forty-niners
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the people (almost all young men) who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849
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