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SS-West Expansion
4th: Unit 5: Chapter 11
Question | Answer |
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Native Americans | The first people to live in North America. |
Trail of Tears | American Indians were forced by the US Army to make the 1,000 mile trip to Indian Territory. |
Pioneer | Someone who went to an area before it was settled. |
Settlers | People who move to a new land. |
Louisiana Purchase | The 1803 land deal that doubled the area of our new country. It was purchased from France for $15 million. |
Annexation | To add land to a country. |
Impressment | The taking of workers against their will. |
Lewis and Clark | They explored the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond. |
California Gold Rush | The 1849 discovery of gold in the Sacramento, California area that inspired the mass migration to this location. |
Manifest Destiny | The belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
Territory | An area of land that is under the authority of a government but is not given the power of self-government. |
Cession | Something that is given up, such as land. |
Frontier | The edge of a country or settled region. |
Boomtown | Communities that quickly grow in population. |
Forty-Niners | People who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. |
Oregon Trail | A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory. |
Canal | A human-made waterway that connects bodies of water and is used for travel and shipping. |
Indian Removal Act | A law that ordered all the Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to move west of that river. |
Mexican-American War | President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. (1846-1848) |
Indian Territory | The area of land that American Indians were forced to move to. |