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Westward Expansion Vocabulary Overview

Jan 29, 2025

Lesson One: Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Conflict

  • Definition: A serious disagreement or argument.

Statehood

  • Definition: The status of being a state of the US.

Expansion

  • Definition: The action of becoming larger or more extensive.

Pioneers

  • Definition: A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

Region

  • Definition: An area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

Migration

  • Definition: Movement from one part of something to another.

Territory

  • Definition: An organized division of a country that is not yet admitted to the full rights of a state.

Persecution

  • Definition: Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

Cede/Cession

  • Definition: The act of giving up something, usually land, by agreement in a formal treaty. Example: After a war, a losing country might make a cession of part of its land to the victor.

Annex/Annexation

  • Definition: To attach, append, or add, to incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state.

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