Manifest Destiny Vocab

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Nickname for the American west zone with incomplete political control

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frontier

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Major cattle route from Texas to Kansas

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Chisholm Trail

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Belief that Americans were destined by God to expand across the continent

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Manifest Destiny

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People who rushed to California after gold was discovered

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49ers

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Texans fought off thousands of Mexican troops for 12 days but lost the battle.

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The Alamo

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Treaty requiring Sioux to live on a Missouri River reservation

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

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Flat, grassy region of western North America

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great plains

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Attack where 200 Cheyenne were killed by Colorado militia

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Sand Creek Massacre

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Site of Native American victory over Custer.

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Little Big Horn

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Massacre of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, SD

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Wounded Creek Massacre