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Unit 5 Vocab Quiz

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Question 1
1.

something that is gained, or acquired

Question 2
2.

the geographic line between two places, such as two countries

Question 3
3.

give up territory, usually as the result of a treaty

Question 4
4.

a group of people sent to explore unknown places

Question 5
5.

an area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to live on

Question 6
6.

a person who wanted to end, or abolish, slavery

Question 7
7.

a Spanish-speaking person who had settled in California

Question 8
8.

to add or incorporate (a new territory) into a country

Question 9
9.

the bitter conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the states that remained in the Union and the states that seceded and formed the Confederacy

Question 10
10.

a piece of land worked by a miner seeking valuable minerals

Question 11
11.

the nation formed by the 11 states (in order of secession—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee) that left the Union

Question 12
12.

the selection of people to serve in an army whether or not they wish to serve

Question 13
13.

President Abraham Lincoln’s order to free (emancipate) people enslaved in states that were still fighting the Union and to allow African Americans into the Union army and navy

Question 14
14.

a gold-seeker in the California gold rush of 1849

Question 15
15.

a person who comes from his or her homeland to settle in another country

Question 16
16.

an American belief in the 1800s that it was the natural right of the United States to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean

Question 17
17.

a person who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Question 18
18.

extending across a continent

Question 19
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a system in which abolitionists secretly helped people who had escaped slavery reach freedom

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the United States as one country; during the Civil War, the government and the armies of the states that chose to remain a part of the United States; (the North)

Question 21
21.

to officially withdraw from a government or a country

Question 22
22.

one of the first people to settle in a territory

Question 23
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strong concern for local interests