Vocabulary
Yearly meeting where people traded furs for supplies
Who did Texas fight for its independence?
Who had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive?
To give up as land
Who was Sacagawea?
Shoshoni girl who helped Lewis & Clark
Miner who explored areas for mineral deposits like gold
Which U.S. president ignored the Supreme Court ruling and sided with Georgia against N.A.’s?
A thinly settled area on the outer limits of a colony
Describe 2 innovations that were important to Westward Expansion
Trains, steamboats, canal/canal boats, turnpikes, telegraph, steel plow, cotton gin
A citizen who takes the law into their own hands
Name 3 land acquisitions made by the United States
LA purchase, Gadsden Purchase, Mexican Cession, FL, Texas, Oregon Territory