EUS 5 Vocabulary

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An order to stop ships from delivering goods

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Embargo

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the practice of forcing men to serve in the military against their will

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Impressment

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People who are among the FIRST to do something

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Pioneers

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the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

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Manifest Destiny

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Expanding the borders and/or amount of land that belongs to a country.

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Territorial Expansion

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process of moving to a new country or region with the intention of staying and living there.

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Immigration

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lies at the border of where civilization ends and where an unsettled area begins

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Frontier

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the forceful takeover of one state's territory by another

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Annexation

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places where people live and sometimes work

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Settlement

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an agreement that binds two or more countries

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Treaty