Westward Expansion

Vocabulary 1

100

Treaty

What is an agreement between two nations? 

200

An area of land that is under the authority of a government but is not given the power of self government

What is territory? 

300

Annexation

What is to add land to a country?

400

Law that ordered all the Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to move west of that river

What is the Indian Removal Act?

500

Eli Whitney

What is the person that invented the cotton gin and the idea of using interchangeable parts?

Vocabulary 2

100

Cession

What is to give land to another country?

200

Communities that quickly grow in population 

What is boomtown? 

300

A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory

What is the Oregon Trail?

400

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?

500

Louisiana Purchase

What is the 1803 land deal that doubled the area of our new country that was purchased from France for 15 million dollars?

Vocabulary 3

100

Pioneer

What is someone who went to an area before it was settled? 

200

Settlers

What are people who move to a new land? 

300

A large, rectangular boat partly covered by a roof

What is a flatboat? 

400

Forty-niner

What is people who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849? 

500

Mexican-American War

What is when President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas? 

Vocabulary 4

100

People who move to a new land

What are settlers?

200

The first people to live in North America

What are Native Americans? 

300

A period of time marked by changes in manufacturing and transportation

What is the Industrial Revolution?

400

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?

500

Lewis and Clark

What is a journey to explore the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond?

Vocabulary 5

100

A line of covered wagons that moved together

What is a wagon trail? 

200

Frontier

What is the edge of a country or settled region? 

300

Canal

What is the waterway built for travel and shipping?

400

The are of land that American Indians were forced to move to

What is an Indian Territory? 

500

California Gold Rush

What is the 1849 discovery of gold in the Sacramento, California area that inspired the mass migration to the gold fields?