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Westward Expansion
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest Destiny (noun) | the 19th-century idea that Americans were chosen by God to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
| homestead (noun) | land in the Western U.S. that was given to a family to farm and live on |
| Westward Expansion (noun) | the movement of people in the American West from 1787-1860 |
| territory (noun) | land that is part of the United States but is not yet a state |
| annex (verb) | to add to something to make the original larger or more important |
| cession (noun) | the surrender of land |
| expedition (noun) | a journey for a specific purpose |
| overland trail (noun) | routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to the Western United States |
| emigrant (noun) | a person who leaves their home country to live somewhere else; emigrants who traveled west on trails were also called pioneers |
| immigrant (noun) | a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country |
| “Indian Removal” (noun) | term used for the forced migration of Indigenous Peoples by the U.S. government |
| transcontinental (adjective) | reaching across a continent |
| frontier (noun) | a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory |
| reservation (noun) | land that is set aside for Native Americans by the United States government |
| wagon train (noun) | a large group of covered wagons traveling west together |
| Gold Rush (noun) | time period referring to the rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield |
| arduous (adjective) | difficult and tiring; involving or requiring strenuous effort |
| prairie schooner (noun) | cloth-covered wagon that was used by pioneers to travel West in the mid-1800s |
| mountain man (noun) | person who lived in the Rocky Mountains and made his living by trapping animals for their fur |
| joint occupation (noun) | people from two countries living in the same region |
| subjugate (verb) | to conquer |
| forty-niner (noun) | fortune-seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush |
| vigilante (noun) | person who acts as police, judge, and jury without formal legal authority |
| stampede (verb and noun) | (v) to cause to run away in panic (n) a mass movement of animals or people from a sudden panic |
| telegraph (noun) | system for transmitting messages along a wire |
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