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10 Cards in this Set
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the physical features of a place
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topography
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to put into another language
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translate
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something that is obtained
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acquisition
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the buying and selling of goods; trading; business
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commerce
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very careful and exact;careful;demanding
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meticulous
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a fur trapper of the West during the 1800's
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mountain man
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a French word meaning "meeting place" a place where mountain man, traders, and Indians met once a year to trade furs
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rendezvous
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an imaginery line that divides the rivers that flow west from those that flow east
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continental divide
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a belief held by some people that the United States must expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
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manifest destiny
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boundless, extensive,immense,huge
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vast
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