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westward expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| expansion | the act of growing, making larger, or expanding |
| expedition | a long and challenging journey into a newly discovered area |
| gold | a precious metal that was very valuable and was highly sought after mineral during the California Gold Rush |
| gold rush | the mass movement of people who moved to California between 1848 1853 in search of gold |
| India removal act | President Andrew Johnson's policy where he negotiated treaties with native Americans, exchanging land east of the Mississippi for land in the west- this was supposed to be voluntary but ended up forcing native Americans out of their homeland and abusing t |
| Louisiana purchase | the land purchased by Thomas Jefferson thst more than doubled the size of the United States |
| Oregen Trail | the most well-known trail that pioneers used to travel to the Pacific Ocean |
| physical barrier | any quality or feature geography that worked against or hindered the pioneers in their journey to settle in the west |