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| Henry Clay | Congress man of the West, from Kentucky |
| John C. Calhoun | Congress man of the South, from South Carolina |
| Daniel Webster | Congress man of the North, from Massachucets |
| charter | A legal document giving certian rights to a person and or country |
| Dumping | Is selling goods in another country below market price |
| Contract | is an agreement between two or more parties that can be enforced by the law |
| capitalism | an economic system in witch privately owned bissnuess compete in a free market |
| interstate commerce | trade between two or more states |
| cecede | and or to give up |
| Miguel Hidalgo | leader of an Native American revolt |
| simo`n bolivar | best known leader for independence from spain |
| James Monroe | secratary of state |
| John Quincy Adams | president |
| self-goverment | the right of people to rule themselves independently |
| sufferage | or the right to vote |
| caucus | a meeting of members in a political party |
| nominating convention | large meetings of party delegates to chose candidates for office |
| spoils system | the practice of rewarding goverment jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins the election |
| Seqoyah | creator of the cherokee written language |
| nullification | an action by the state that cancles federal law to witch the state objects |
| Martin Van Buren | president in 1836 |
| william henry harrison | president in 1840 |
| frontier | is the land that forms the farthest extent of a nations settled regions |
| land grants | goverment gifts of land |
| rancheros | or owners of ranches |
| expansion | extending the bounderies beyond its exsisting borders |
| william becknell | was a captain who led a wagon trail |
| john jacob astor | German immagrint who led the first fur trade expeditionto the state of Oregon |
| Mountain men | fur trappers of the Northwest |
| rendevonous | a meeting where the trappers would trade fur for supplies |
| Marcus and Narcissa Whitman | a couple who set up a mission in Oregon |
| Stephen Austin | leader of a group of 300 americans to texas |
| dictatorship | a one person rule |
| seige | is an attack in witch one force surrounds a city or fort |
| Sam Houstan | comander of the Texan forces |
| James K. Polk | president of 1844 |
| John C. freemont | A young bold explorer |
| joseph smith | founder of the mormon church |
| polygamy | the practice of having one or more wives at the same time |
| Brigham Young | new morman leader and visionary |
| fourty niners | name given to people who came to California in search of gold |
| Water rights | are the legal rights to use water in a stream, |
