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Westward Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Purchase | An agreement that almost doubled the size of the U.S |
| expedition | A journey taken by a group of people with a specific purpose. |
| embargo | A law that is passed to prohibit trade with other nations |
| nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a nation |
| Monroe Doctrine | An American policy warning European powers not to interfere with the Americas |
| Indian Territory | U.S land what is now Oklahoma where Congress planned to move Native Americans |
| frontier | Outer edge of a settled region |
| pioneer | An early settler of a region |
| wagon train | The common method of transportation to the West, which wagons traveled in groups for safety |
| Gold Trail | In 1849 when many settlers moved to California in search of gold |
| textile | Fabric that is woven |
| economy | The way that a society or nation produces and distributes goods and services |
| industrialization | the process of moving from an agricultural society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods |
| technology | The use of human knowledge to create tools and machines that allow us to navigate and control the environment; does not have to be electronic |
| Louisiana Purchase | ~Cost the U.S $15 million ~brought from France ~doubled the size of the U.S from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains |
| Lewis and Clark | ~Goals-map the river; make friends with the Native Americans; look for a new passage that flowed to the Pacific Ocean ~They were sent on the expedition by Thomas Jefferson |
| Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears | ~Gold was found on Indian territory and the settlers wanted it for themselves ~Congress issued the Indian Removal Act to push the Indians of there land to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma |
| Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears | ~Trail of Tears- an 880 mile journey that included over 60,000 Native Americans from the tribes that took place from 1831-1842. It stretched from Florida through Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and ended in Oklahoma in the Indian Territory. |
| Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears | ~Tribes involved- Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, Cherokee |
| Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears |
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