Vocabulary 1
This term describes large regions of land.
What are territories?
A gold seeker in the California Gold Rush.
What is a Forty-Niner?
President Jefferson purchased this portion of land from France in 1803 for 12 million dollars. It was a great bargain because it doubled the size of the United States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
When the United States purchased the Louisiana Purchase, who were the individuals that traveled on an expedition to study soil, plants, animals, and Native American tribes.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The geographic line between two places, such as two states or two countries.
What is a boundary?
American leaders during Westward Expansion used a variety of methods to add territories to the United States. What is this called?
What is annex?
This group of immigrants came to America in search of the "Golden Mountains" and helped build the Transcontinental Railroad laying track east from Sacramento California.
Who are the Chinese Immigrants?
This land was controlled by Spain. Many African Americans would run away to this land to escape slave owners in Georgia. Seminole Native Americans fought white Americans as the tried to take over their lands.
What is the Florida Acquisition?
What were immigrants moving west for to "strike it rich"?
What is Gold?
The act of giving up "ceding" territory, usually as the result of a treaty.
What is cession?
An area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to live on.
What is a reservation?
This religious group moved westward to find religious freedom. Brigham Young said they could only be safe if they moved farther west/
Who are the Mormons?
Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence. They called their new country the Republic of Texas, which was an independent country for nine years. What do we call this addition to the United States where Texas became the 28th state?
What is the Texas Annexation?
What is Dysentery, smallpox, measles, mumps, or cholera?
An area of land granted to Spanish and Mexican Citizens in North America, usually for ranching (for example, raising cattle).
What are rancho?
What tern is used to describe when someone leads a journey to explore and map out undiscovered land. Lewis and Clark are 2 famous Americans that explored the Louisiana Purchase on this type of travel.
What is an expedition?
This group of people lived West in the mid 1800's were Spanish-speaking individuals.
Who are Mexicanos?
This portion of land was divided between Britain and the United States at the 49 degree latitude north from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
What is the Acquisition of Oregon County?
What is the name of the animal that pulled wagons west on the Oregon Trail?
What are oxen?
Across the continent. This railroad stretched across the North American Continent from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the term given to Westward Expansion that said, "It was America's obvious fate to expand westward"?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Chef Joseph was the leader of this group of Native Americans that were forced of their lands by the American Government.
Who are the Nez Perce?
This trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Of all the groups living in the United States, who suffered the most, lost land, people, and resources because of Westward Expansion?
Who are the Native Americans?
What war between the Northern and Southern states in America started as a disagreement about how to settle the west?
What is the Civil War?