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Westward Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pioneer | an early settler of an area |
| Lewis and Clark | leaders of an expedition to explore the land bought in the Louisiana Purchase |
| Alamo | A Texas mission turned into a fort by Americans (including Davy Crockett) who wanted to protect themselves form the Mexican dictator Santa Anna |
| James Madison | president in office when British attacked Washington, D.C. and set the White House on fire |
| Indian Removal Act | law signed by Andrew Jackson which forced Cherokee and other tribes to leave their land and move west of the Mississippi River |
| cotton gin | machine invented by Eli Whitney that could remove the seeds from newly picked cotton |
| Frances Scott Key | wrote the Star Spangled Banner upon seeing the American flag still standing after the British attack of Fort McHenry |
| canal | a human-made waterway that connects bodies of water |
| Trail of Tears | 800 miles that Cherokees were forced to walk as they were removed from their own lands |
| Oregon Trail | travel route for pioneers to follow from Independence, Missouri west to the Oregon Territory |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | sold land to the US in Louisiana Purchase |
| locks | two gates along a canal that hold back a section of water; gates are opened and closed as needed to move boats down the canal |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin; also invented a system of interchangeable parts for making guns, which made mass production possible |
| Thomas Jefferson | responsible for Louisiana Purchase |
| Daniel Boone | hired to widen the trail through the Cumberland Gap; one of the best known pioneers to cross the Appalachians |
| mass production | the ability to make large amounts of goods at the same time |
| Industrial Revolution | goods could be made more quickly and at a lower cost; new inventions and forms of transportation that changed the way people lived and worked |
| Sacagawea | Shoshone Indian hired to guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through Shoshone lands and to act as a translator |
| Manifest Destiny | belief by Americans that the US was meant to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| interchangeable parts | parts that are exactly alike so that items can be easily put together or replaced |
| geographic obstacle | a natural formation like a mountain or a river that got in the way of easy travel westward |
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