Manifest Destiny Vocab

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Military post or settlement

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presidio

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Military tactic where troops surround a city to gain control.

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Seige

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Amount by which something is won or lost

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margin

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to add

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annex

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to give up

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cede

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Mass departure

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exodus

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The U.S. had the right and obligation to expand across North America to the Pacific.

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manifest destiny

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A large group of covered wagons traveling together across North America as pioneers moved westward.

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Wagon train

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Settler moving to new land

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pioneer

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One of the thousands of miners who traveled to California for gold in 1849.

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forty niner