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Grade 7 - Unit 7
Western Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Purchase | The United States purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States. |
| Manifest Destiny | A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Oregon Trail | A 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | A 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States much of Mexico’s northern territory. |
| Homestead Act | A 1862 law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government-owned land to small farmers. |
| Gadsden Purchase | The United States purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 that included the southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico. |
| Erie Canal | A canal that runs from Albany to Buffalo, New York that was completed in 1825. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad system that crossed the continental United States. |
| Indian Removal Act | A 1830 law passed by Congress that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River. |
| Trail of Tears | An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory which resulted in death of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people. |
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