Key Vocab
$100 – This belief system encouraged Americans to move west.
Answer: What is Manifest Destiny?
$100 – The government encouraged settlement through these land policies.
Answer: What is cheap or free land?
$100 – Many Americans believed expansion was this.
Answer: What is inevitable?
$100 – Indigenous peoples had lived on western lands for this amount of time.
Answer: What is generations?
$100 – Gold was discovered in this state in 1848.
Answer: What is California?
$200 – This was a tragic result of expansion and Native removal.
Answer: What is the Trail of Tears?
$200 – Rich soil attracted farmers looking for this.
Answer: What is independence?
$200 – Expansion was supported by religious ideas and seen as this.
Answer: What is God’s will?
$200 – Settlers wanted Native land because it was valuable for these two things.
Answer: What are farming and mining?
$200 – Thousands of people who moved west during the Gold Rush were known by this name.
Answer: Who are the 49ers?
$300 – This economic opportunity sped up settlement after gold was discovered.
Answer: What is the Gold Rush?
$300 – People hoped to improve their lives financially by moving west for this reason.
Answer: What is economic opportunity?
$300 – Americans believed they were this compared to other cultures.
Answer: What is superior?
$300 – The U.S. government frequently broke these agreements.
Answer: What are treaties?
$300 – This happened to California’s population after gold was discovered.
Answer: What is rapid population growth?
$400 – This term describes the movement west of the Mississippi River.
Answer: What is Westward Expansion?
$400 – Many Americans moved west seeking this chance for freedom or a fresh start.
Answer: What is adventure and new beginnings?
$400 – This grew as pride in the nation’s growth and power increased.
Answer: What is nationalism?
$400 – This increased because Native Americans had little power to resist.
Answer: What is forced relocation?
$400 – These developed almost overnight as a result of the Gold Rush.
Answer: What are boomtowns?
$500 – This law forced Native American tribes to move west.
Answer: What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
$500 – This activity attracted farmers to the West because of fertile land.
Answer: What is farming?
$500 – Fighting occurred between settlers and Native tribes because of this.
Answer: What are conflicts over land?
$500 – These Southeastern tribes were targeted by removal policies.
Answer: Who are the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole?
$500 – Mining caused this type of damage to rivers and land.
Answer: What is environmental damage?