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| cash crop | One grown primarily for sale rather than for farmer’s own use |
| sectionalism | Placing the interests of one region over the interests of the nation as a whole |
| land grant | Grants of territory that are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in relatively unpopulated countries |
| Manifest Destiny | the term expresses the idea that the United States was destined by God to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
| Alamo | An abandoned mission and fort where, in 1835, 187 Americans in an attempt to defend Texas against Mexican forces |
| Capitalism | economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production |
| annex | To incorporate into a to incorporate into larger area of land |
| telegraph | Smauel F.B. Morse's invention which carried messages over copper wire |
| entrepreneur | French word which means "to undertake" to and where individuals risk their own money |
| specialization | When farmers shifted from self-sufficiency to focusing on one or two cash crops it became known as: |
| Fifty-Four Forty or Fight | A slogan which promoted the idea and the northern boundary of the US against the British |
| market revolution | An economic change where people bought and sold goods rather than making goods for their own use |
| Mormons | religious community led by Joseph Smith |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 | This Congressional Act divided the areas in the Midwest and followed the principle of popular sovereignty |
| Homestead Act 1862 | Act which offered 160 acres of free land to US citizens |
| Santa Fe Trail | well known trade and travel route which went from Missouri to New Mexico |
| Gold Rush | The sweep of people flocking to California ib 1849 in search of precious metal |
| Missouri Compromise 1820 | An agreement struck to keep the balance of slave and free states even (Maine & Missouri) |
| Mexican-American War 1845 | Conflict between the United States and its southern neighbor in 1845 over territory |
| Oregon Trail | Trail which went from Missouri to Portland |
| Republic of Texas | Houston became president of this territory1836 |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | 1851 agreement which gave various Native Americans control of the Central Plains |
| Dred Scott Decision | This Supreme Court case which decided that African Americans were not and could not be citizens |
| Compromise of 1850 | A settlement which intended to settle the issue of slavery by describing the Union north as free an South as slave |
| Texas Revolution | Rebellions which took place in Mexican Territory |
| Bleeding Kansas | the description given to the Midwest territory due to violence which erupted over the struggle concerning slavery |
