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| Political map | shows the boundaries of countries, states, cities, etc. |
| physical map | shows geographic features of the earth |
| topographic map | shows elevations of peaks and valleys |
| cartography | map making |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east and west |
| intermediate directions | in between cardinal points (northeast, southwest, etc.) |
| map legend | usually a box that tells what symbols mean on a map |
| map scale | ruler on a map that shows distance proportions |
| compass rose | illustration that shows cardinal and intermediate directions |
| Louisiana Purchase | territory from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains acquired from France |
| Treaty of San Illdefonso | the meeting that transferred the Louisiana Territory from Spain to France (Napoleon); said if France did not want it, France should give it back to Spain |
| Haitian Revolt | Napoleon's problem that took his troops from Lousiana making the LA Purchase possible |
| Saint Domingue | the city where slave Toussaint L'Ouverturebegan the Haitian revolt |
| Francois de Barbe-Marbois | the French negotiator in the LA Purchase |
| Foreign Minister Tallyrand | advised Napoleon to be cautious, but wasn't listened to...so Napoleon was ultimately defeated |
| James Monroe | one of the American negotiators in the LA Purchase; later became President |
| Yellow Fever | disease transferred by mosquitoes that killed Napoleon's men in Haiti |
| Missouri Compromise | admitted Missouri as a slave state AND Maine as a free state; Prohibited slavery above 36°30′ north (Missouri's Southern border) |
| War of 1812 | American Revolution part 2, Fought over impressment (betwen the U.S. and Britain) |
| Mexican-American War | conflict that established a boundary using the Rio Grande River |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief the US should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | Law that allowed America to legally grow by the government selling government owned land to the public land |
| Nation-states | When a country is divided into smaller political divisions |
