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| term used in the early 1800s for the region that includes present day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Canada. |
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| route to Oregon used by wagon trains in the 1800s |
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| a plot of land where pioneers could build a home, farm, or ranch |
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| famous 1804-1806 journey of roughly 8,000 miles to explore new lands, map a route to the Pacific Ocean and to learn about Indians living in the West. |
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| mountain ridge in the Rocky Mountaind that seperates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of a continent |
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| one of the more than 80,000 people who joined the gold rush to California in 1849 |
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| members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joesph Smith in 1830 |
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