Ss Vocab Pioneers

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Buffalo

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Any of various wild oxen; popularly, the American bison

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Cholera

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Any of several intestinal diseases

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Conestoga Wagon

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A broad-wheeled covered wagon used for hauling freight in colonial America; named after Conestoga Valley, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the wagons were made.

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Drought

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long peroid of dryness

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Emigrate

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to leave one's place of residence tolive elsewhere

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Emigration

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the act of emigrating, or moving away

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Epidemic

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A disease that spreads quickly among many individuals in a community at the same time; the rapid spreading of such a disease

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Midwest

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the part of the US west of the Appalachin Mountains, east of the Rocky Mountains, and north of the Ohio River and the southern boundries of Missouri and Kansas

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Migrate

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tomove from one place to another

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Migration

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movement from one place to another

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Missionary

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A person sent on a mission, often a religious one; a person who tries to convert people of other faiths to their own faith

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Native Americans

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The collective name for thousands of people who lived in present-day US land long before Europeans settled in the Americas.

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Oregon Country

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Territory stretching from present-day northern California to the southern border of Alaska

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Oregon Trail

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Former route extending from the Missouri River, northwest to the Columbia River in what is today Oregon, much used by westward migrants.

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Pioneer

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A person who goes before, preparing the way for others

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Plains

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Large areas of level or rolling largely treeless country

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Prairie

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A large area of level or slightly rolling grassland, especially one in the Mississippi Valley

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Prairie Schooner

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A large, box-sjaped covered wagon used by pioneers in the nineteenth century to cross American prairies

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Reservation

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Land set aside by the US government for Native Americans

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Sagebrush

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Any of a number of grayish plants that smell like sage, common to the dry, alkaline areas of western North America

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Topography

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The science of drawing on maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region

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Trailblazer

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A pioneer in any field; one who first ventured west creating or "blazing" the trail

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Westward Ho!

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The phrase that became the symbol of encouragement and daring to settlers headed west.