Growth and Conflict Vocabulary Part One

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose?"

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expedition

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a region that is on the boundary of settled or developed territory?"

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frontier

Front

Which term best aligns with the definition "to seize and force into service (as a sailor being forced into the British Navy)?"

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impressment

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a federal law passed in 1830 that allowed the federal government to exchange land west of the Mississippi River for the lands of Native American tribes east of the river?"

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Indian Removal Act

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Which term best aligns with the definition "the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States at the time?"

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Louisiana Purchase

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Which term best aligns with the definition "the idea that the United States had the right and the duty to expand and annex new territories?"

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Manifest Destiny

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a foreign policy which declared that the U.S. would not interfere with European nations or their existing colonies, and that the U.S. would prevent European nations from attempting to establish new colonies in Latin America?"

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Monroe Doctrine

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Which term best aligns with the definition "the forced migration of approximately 15,000 Cherokee Indians in 1838-39 in which the US Army marched them from their land in North Carolina and Georgia to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River?"

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Trail of Tears

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a treaty signed in 1835 by US government officials & leaders of the Cherokee nation that resulted in the Trail of Tears?"

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Treaty of New Echota

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Which term best aligns with the definition "a war between the United States and Britain from 1812-1815, which the US won and considered a “second war for independence”?"

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War of 1812