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| Large regions of land. Within the United States, territories often refers to areas that have not yet been organized into states. |
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| To add new land to a country by taking control of it. |
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| An area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to live on. |
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| The cof giving up ("ceding") territory, usually as the result of a treaty. |
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| A wooden frame tha fastens around an animal's neck. |
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to create settlements in a new territory or land
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| An area of land granted to Spanish and Mexican citizens in North America, usually for ranching (for example, raising cattle) |
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| Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Th Mormon church was started by Joseph Smith in 1830. In the 1800s, Mormon pioneers settled in the American West, especially Utah. |
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| Gold seekers from around the world who rushed to California beginning in 1849. |
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| The first people from a particular group to move to a new place and begin living there. In the 1800s, the settlers who moved to he West were pioneers. But they were not the first people to make their homes in the west.other groups of people already lived here, including Native Americans and Mexicanos. |
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| People from China who moved to the United States in the 1800s. (Immigrants are people who move to another country or part of the world to make their homes there.) |
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| A trip by a group of people involvig some danger or risk |
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