Ch 5 SS vocab

people who settle on land that is new to them

• pioneers

• Missouri Compromise

• debts

• frontier

A law passed by Congress allowing Main to join the Union as a free state and Missouri to join as a slave state

• Missouri Compromise

• Oregan Trail

• Gold Rush

• Santa Fe Trail

money that is borrowed and is supposed to be paid back

• debt

• loans

• frontier

trappers who lived in the Rocky Mountains

• mountain men

• Gold rush

• pioneers

a rapid movement of people to California in search of gold

• Gold Rush

• Oregan Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

a route west used by pioneers in the 1840s

• Oregan Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• Gold Rush

the earliest trail west, established in 1821 as a trade route to Mexico

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregan Trail

the edge of a settle area

• frontier

• mountain men

• pioneer

money owed to other people

• debts

• loans

• frontier

plan of government

• constitution

• debts

• loans

• frontier