Justify - to give valid reasons or evidence supportive a decision, action, belief, or statement, Acquisition - The act of obtaining something, Manifest Destiny - The 1800s belief that the United States was meant to expand westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Perspecive - How one sees and understands a situation based on their experiences and beliefs, Cede - To give up (power or territory), Annex - to take and add something, like land or territory, to your own, Suffrage - the right to vote in political elections, Compromise - to reach an agreement with someone in which both of you accept less than you really want, Displace - being forced to leave one's usual place or position, often due to conflict or disaster, Indigenous - native people with a strong historical connection to a specific region, Assimilation - the process of integrating new information or cultures into an existing system, Homesteading - Americans claiming lands in Western territories,

Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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