Reasons for Going West
Population growth in this region encouraged westward expansion.
What is the east?
This law gave the United States the right to remove Native Americans from their land by signing treaties with individual tribes.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Thomas Jefferson bought this territory from France for 15 million dollars, almost doubling the size of the United States.
What is Louisiana?
This device increased the demand for slave labor by making it easier to process cotton?
The cotton gin.
This precious metal was found in California in 1849, encouraging westward movement.
What is gold?
This tribe that lived in Georgia and the Carolinas was driven off of their land by the United States government.
Who were the Cherokee?
Spain gave this territory to the United States in 1819.
What is Florida?
This device was invented by Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson. It made it easier to harvest wheat and helped feed a growing population.
What is the reaper?
These two overland trails helped settlers move west.
*You only need to name ONE trail*
What were the Oregon and Santa Fe trails?
This is the name given to the forced march of the Cherokee and other Native American tribes from their ancestral homes to land out west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This territory was added to the United States in 1845 after being an independent nation for almost 10 years.
What is Texas?
This invention made it easier to travel up and down rivers, which helped connect southern plantations with northern factories.
What is the steam boat?
Easily accessible, cheap, fertile land made this one of the main ways to make money out west.
What is farming?
The Cherokee and other tribes were driven from their homes and sent to live in this modern-day state.
What is Oklahoma.
This territory, which included California, was given to the United States by Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This invention made it easier to travel over land.
What was the steam locomotive/ train?
This was the belief that the United States was destined to own all land in North America.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This president signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which led to the Trail of Tears.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The United States bought this small territory from Mexico for 10 million dollars. The land was needed for the southern route of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This railroad connected the Eastern and Western United States.