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Manifest Destiny Vocab
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10/26/2015

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Telegraph
Definition
a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire.
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
The rapid development of industry.
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nationalism
Definition
patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts
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sectionalism
Definition
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
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manifest destiny
Definition
belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
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domestic policy
Definition
administrative decisions which are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation's borders.
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foreign policy
Definition
a government's strategy in dealing with other nations.
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entrepreneur
Definition
a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
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Gold Rush
Definition
a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield.
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annex (annexation)
Definition
Add on to the country.
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cede (cession)
Definition
give up (power or territory).
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mission system
Definition
A way of living used by the Spanish in the Americas.
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sod house
Definition
successor to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States.
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dugout house
Definition
a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
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bonanza farm
Definition
very large farms in the United States performing large-scale operations.
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migrate
Definition
move from one area or country to settle in another, especially in search of work.
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emigrate
Definition
leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
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Americanization
Definition
process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into American society.
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reservations
Definition
The land given to the Native Americans.
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Exoduster
Definition
name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
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