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Westward Expansion 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pioneer | one of the first settlers to travel into an unknown territory |
| frontier | an area that settlers have just started moving into |
| interpreter | a person who translates what is being said in one language into another language |
| doctrine | an official statement or position |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| famine | a widespread shortage of food |
| reform | change for the better |
| temperance | controlling or cutting back on the drinking of alcohol |
| injustice | unfair treatment that ignores a person' rights |
| wagon train | a line of covered wagons moving cross-country |
| forty-niner | a person who went to find gold in California in 1849 |
| gold rush | the quick movement of people to California and other places following the discovery of gold |
| boomtown | a town whose population booms, or grows, very quickly |
| Daniel Boone | hunter and pioneer who was curious about the land west of the Appalachians |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | French ruler who offered to sell all of Louisiana to the U.S. |
| Louisiana Purchase | purchased from France and doubled the size of the U.S. |
| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | sent by President Jefferson to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean; gathered information on geography, plants, animals, climate and peoples of the West |
| Sacagawea | a Shoshone woman who joined Lewis and Clark as their interpreter |
| Thomas Jefferson | was elected as the 3rd president in 1800 |
| War of 1812 | the United States declared war against the British because they thought they were giving weapons to the American Indians; British Navy seized American ships and forced sailors to join the British Navy |
| Monroe Doctrine | a warning issued by President James Monroe to European nations not to invade or start new colonies in any part of North or South America |
| Andrew Jackson | elected President in 1828 and was seen as a hero of the War of 1812; was admired by many as a tough fighter |
| Trail of Tears | Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their home due to the Indian Removal Act; thousands died from the terrible conditions |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830; ordered people of the Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to move west so President Jackson could get more land |
| Sequoya | invented a writing system for the Cherokee language |
| Chief John Ross | to the Indian Removal Act case to the Supreme Court where it was ruled unlawful; President Jackson ignored the decision |
| immigrants | people who move from one country to another country |
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