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Conquest

Acquiring control of a place by military force

Migration

The movement of people from one place to another

Manifest destiny

The belief that God will the United States territory to expand from “sea to shining sea”

Pull factor

Reason for migration that tracks or pulls people to a place

Push factor

Reason for migration that makes people want to leave or pushes them from a place

Treaty

A formal agreement or contract

Turners Rebellion

Slavery rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Noot turner, an enslaved African-American, resulting in the deaths of between 55 and 65 white people and resulted in the deaths of over 200 African Americans.

Underground Railroad

A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people in the American south to escape to freedom in the north or Canada

Harriet Tubman

Escape slave, who worked to help enslave people escape to the north

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leader of France during the early 1800s. Thomas Jefferson bought the land known as the Louisiana purchase from him.

Corps of delivery

Roof led by Lewis and Clark to gather information about the land, added to the United States in the Louisiana purchase