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westward expansion 2
Westward Expansion vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| expansion | the act of growing, making larger, or explaining |
| Expedition | a long and challenging journey into a newly discovered area |
| gold | a precious metal that was very valuable and was the highly sought after mineral during California gold rush |
| Gold rush | the mass movment of people who moved west to California between 1848-1853 in the search of gold |
| indian removal act | Negotiated treaties with native Americans , exchanging land of the missisippi for land in the west. This ended up forcing out of their homes and abusing the terms of the treaties |
| louisiana purchase | land purchased by Thomas Jefferson that more that doubled the size of the US |
| Oregon Trail | the most well known trail that pioneers used to travel to the pacific ocean |
| physical barrier | any quality or feature of geography that worked again or hindered the pioneers in their journey to settle in the west |
| physical gateway | any quality or feature of geography that helped or benefited the pioneers in their journey to settle in the west |
| pioneers | one of the first settlers in a new territory |
| settler | a person who settles in a new colony or settles in to an unfamiliar location |
| territorial expansion | the period of time between 1801 -1861 when the US grew tremendously in land size |
| Territory | a geography area of land marked off and designed for a certain state or country |
| The alamo | One of the most famous battles between Mexico and texas |
| the trail of tears | the journey of the ‘ five sivilzed tribes’ who were living in the Deep South when they where relocated to their current state of Oklahoma the journey was treacherous as exporser to disease, weather, and starvation killed thousands. |