Chapter 13
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 manual | done by using one's hands |
| distinct | clear or definite; different in its quality |
| isolated | set apart; separated |
| hostile | unfriendly; intending to do harm |
| levy | to force to be paid |
| provoke | to cause to anger; to excite; to cause an action |
| efficient | done in way that increases production with the least amount of waste |
| prospect | promise; something looked forward to |
| frontier | land that forms the farthest extent of a nation's settled regions |
| expansion | extending the nation beyond its existing borders |
| mountain man | fur trappers of the Northwest |
| dictatorship | one-person rule |
| siege | attack in which one force surrounds a city or a fort |
| annex | add on |
| cede | give up |
| polygamy | the practice of having more than one wife at a time |
| forty-niner | people who came to California in search of gold |
| water rights | legal rights to use the water in a river, stream, or other body |
| vigilante | self-appointed law enforcers |
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