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Westward Expansion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| migration | movement from place or region to another |
| industrialization | to introduce industry (businesses and factories) into an area on a large scale |
| inventor | a person who is the first to think or make something |
| entrepreneur | a person who organizes resources to bring new or better good or service to market |
| abolitionist | men and women who thought slavery was wrong and demanded their immediate freedom |
| suffrage | a principle focused on voting rights for as well as equality and justice for all |
| Louisiana Purchase | Thomas Jefferson purchased this land from France which doubled the size of the United States |
| Florida | Spain gave this territory to the United States through the Adams-Onis Treaty |
| Texas | was added to the United States after it became in independent Republic |
| Oregon | was divided by the United States and Great Britain |
| California | the United States received this land along with the Southwest Territory after war with Mexico |
| Oregon Trail | overland trail providing a pathway through the Northwest USA |
| Santa Fe Trail | overland trail providing a pathway through the Southwest USA |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country |
| Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | explored the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin which increased the production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton |
| Jo Anderson | an enslaved African-American who worked with Cyrus McCormick to invent the reaper which increased the productivity of the American farmer |
| Cyrus McCormick | an entrepreneur who worked with Jo Anderson to invent the reaper and bring it to the market |
| Robert Fulton | an entrepreneur who improved the steamboat which provided faster river transportation connecting Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories |
| Harriet Tubman | led hundreds of enslaved African-Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad |
| William Lloyd Garrison | wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all slaves |
| Frederick Douglass | wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives |
| Isabella Sojourner Truth | a former enslaved African-American nationally known for advocating equality and justice |
| Susan B Anthony | advocated voting rights for women and equal rights for all |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | played a leadership role in the women's rights movement |
| Indian Removal Act | Gave permission to the federal government to negotiate the exchange of land in the East for land in the West. |
| Trail of Tears | Indian tribes such as the Cherokee were forced off their lands and were forced to relocate in the West (modern day Oklahoma) |
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