Missouri Compromise

Glossary

• ceded property given to someone else
• contiguous sharing a boundary
• defraying satisfying costs by payment
• expedient appropriate to the purpose
• incident caused by or required by
• meridian a north-south line envisioned as circumscribing the earth through both poles
• parallel an east-west line envisioned as circumscribing the earth a certain distance north or south of the equator
• patents government grants
• patentees recipients of government grants
• salt springs sources of dissolved salt, especially important to cattle ranchers
• seat of government capital
• seminary of learning college or university