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Vocabs on Lewis+Clark expedition
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Social Work
8th Grade
09/18/2011

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Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi Rivers
Definition

 are a vast system of mountains in eastern North America

Mississippi: a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico

Term
Haitian Independence
Definition

When haitian got their independence from France.

The revolution was led a fellow named Toussaint L'Ouverture. (Too-sain Loo-vair-t'oor)

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Pinckney Treaty
Definition
When the Spanish guaranteed the Americans' right to ship their goods down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
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Louisiana Purchase
Definition
When America bought the Louisiana Territory for 15 million dollars. About 4 cents an acre. Fyi Napoleon offered the whole Louisiana Territory is the "surprise offer"
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Sacagawea
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Jefferson's Dilemma
Definition

When he had trouble deciding whether to buy the Louisiana Territory or not .

 

(?) (?) Maybe you should look over this cause i have no idea what this is. (?) (?) 

 

Talking to myself.

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expedition
Definition

An expedition is a long and carefully organized journey.

 

i.e Lewis and Clark went on an expedition to the wild west.

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continental divide
Definition
it is the place on a continent that separates river systems flowing in opposite directions.
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