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Manifest Destiny
Vocabulary about Manifest Destiny
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History
8th Grade
09/27/2011

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Ally / Alliance
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Formal treaty or agreement or between nations to cooperate for specific purposes and reasons
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Annex / Annexation
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The act of which a state proclaims its ownership over territory outside of its domain
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Monroe Doctrine
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A policy of the United States, created on December 2, 1823, stating that any other efforts by the European countries interfering with states in the Americas, would be seen as aggresions towards America
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Corduroy Road
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A road made of sand-covered logs placed over low or swampy areas
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Continuous network of railroad tracks that cross a continental land mass with endings at continental borders or oceans
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Turnpike
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A road or highway in which your tolls payed allow you to occupy the highway and keep it maintained
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Erie Canal
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A small waterway through New York to Erie Lake, creating a navigable water route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
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Polygamy
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The Mormon belief that a man should be and is able to have more that one wife at the same time; that they can have several
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Vigilante
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A person who takes the law into their own hands
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Frontier
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A political or geographical term referring to land near or beyond a boundary
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