Vocabulary 1
Treaty
Cession
What is to give land to another country?
Pioneer
What is someone who went to an area before it was settled?
People who move to a new land
What are settlers?
A line of covered wagons that moved together
What is a wagon trail?
An area of land that is under the authority of a government but is not given the power of self government
What is territory?
Communities that quickly grow in population
What is boomtown?
Settlers
What are people who move to a new land?
The first people to live in North America
What are Native Americans?
Frontier
What is the edge of a country or settled region?
Annexation
What is to add land to a country?
A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory
What is the Oregon Trail?
A large, rectangular boat partly covered by a roof
A period of time marked by changes in manufacturing and transportation
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Canal
What is the waterway built for travel and shipping?
Law that ordered all the Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to move west of that river
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Forty-niner
What is people who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849?
Trail of Tears
What is American Indians that were forced by the United State Army to make the 1,000 mile trip to Indian Territory?
The are of land that American Indians were forced to move to
What is an Indian Territory?
Eli Whitney
What is the person that invented the cotton gin and the idea of using interchangeable parts?
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican-American War
What is when President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas?
Lewis and Clark
What is a journey to explore the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond?
California Gold Rush
What is the 1849 discovery of gold in the Sacramento, California area that inspired the mass migration to the gold fields?