| A | B |
|---|
| Tejano | a Texan of Mexican descent |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that American should expand it's territorial limits |
| abolitionist | person who didn't want slavery |
| fugitive slave law | a law that made it easier for slaveholders to have runaways returned on them |
| Republican Party | Lincoln's party, against slavery moving into the West |
| Oregon Trail | Trail used to go from Mo. to Oregon country |
| terrain | land & landforms (deserts, mts, valleys) |
| Common Man | average Amer citizen |
| temperance | no or moderate drinking |
| discrimination | against a minority group |
| Certificate of Freedom | showed that a slave was free |
| Underground Railroad | a system set up by opponents of slavery to help slaves escape from the South to the North |
| Conductor | helper on Under'd RR |
| agent | a person who represents another person |
| annex | to add on (annex a state) |
