LA Purchase vocabulary

to block off a port by surrounding it with ships

• outcry

• blockade

• revolt

• territory

a person who settles in a new land

• pelt

• blockade

• yellow fever

• colonist

a type of government in which people choose their own leaders in elections

• democracy

• blockade

• pioneer

• revolution

a group of territories with the same ruler

• treaty

• warehouse

• pioneer

• empire

used to carry a heavy load of freight along a waterway

• flatboat

• pelt

• outcry

• blockade

the act of a lot of people complaining loudly about something

• flatboat

• pelt

• outcry

• blockade

an animal skin with fur on it

• revolution

• pelt

• ruthless

• colonist

someone who settles in new territory

• pioneer

• flatboat

• treaty

• Yellow Fever

a city where ships can load and unload their cargo

• territory

• flatboat

• port

• warehouse

to rebel against a government

• Yellow Fever

• revolt

• blockade

• ruthless