Manifest Destiny - the idea that it was the right of the Americans to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean, missions - church-centered communities whose purpose was to convert Native Americans to Christianity, aerospace - industry that makes vehicles that travel in the air and in outer space, San Andreas fault - area in California with frequent earthquakes, continental divide - imaginary line that passes through the Rocky Mountains that directs which way rivers flow, irrigation - the process of collecting water and using it to water crops, agribusiness - modern farming that relies on machines, advanced technology and mass-production methods, annexed - to declare ownership of an area, chinook - dry, winter wind that sometimes blows across the Great Plains, national parks - a park that has been set aside for the public to enjoy for its great natural beauty, NAFTA - a trade agreement signed by the US, Canada and Mexico, no longer in effect , pueblos - Spanish village, frontier - a region just beyond the edge of a settled area, reservations - an area of land that has been set aside for Native Americans, Mormons - a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, topsoil - fertile layer of soil that crops depend on to grow, cordillera - a region of parallel mountain chains, ethanol - a liquid fuel made in part from plants, nomads - a person who lives by moving from place to place, contiguous - joined together inside a common boundary, extinct - describing a particular kind of plan or animal that has disappeared completely from Earth, Dust Bowl - the southern Great Plains during the severe drought of the 1930s, timberline - the elevation above which it is too cold for trees to grow,

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