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Westward Expantion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an agreement that almost doubled in size of the u.s | Louisiana Purchase |
| a journey taken by a group of people with a specific purpose | expedition |
| u.s land in what is now Oklahoma where congress planned to move Natives | Indian territory |
| an early settler of a region | pioneer |
| a law that is passed to prohibit trade with other nations | embargo |
| loyalty and devotion to a nation | nationalism |
| an American policy warning European powers not to interfere with the Americans | Monroe Doctrine |
| outer edge of a settled region | frontier |
| the common method of transportation to the West, in which wagons traveled in groups for safety | wagon trail |
| in 1849 when many settlers moved to California in search of gold | Gold Rush |
| fabric that is woven | textile |
| the way that a society or nation produces and distributes goods and services | economy |
| the process of moving from an agricultural society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods | industrialization |
| An act that sent Indians on the Trail of Tears | Indian Removal Act |