Unit 8: Westward Expansion Vocabulary

(1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

• Homestead Act
• Monroe Doctrine
• Indian Removal Act
• Manifest Destiny

idea held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Homestead Act
• Monroe Doctrine
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny

an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Southeast to Indian Territory in Oklahoma; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people

• Homestead Act
• Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Oregon Trail

explored the southern part of the Louisiana Territory

• Zebulon Pike
• Oregon Trail
• Land Speculators
• Lewis & Clark

1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.

• Adams-Onis Treaty
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Gadsden Purchase
• Louisiana Purchase

land ceded (surrendered) by Mexico as a result of the Mexican war; contained the southwest portion of the U.S.

• Gadsden Purchase
• Mexican Cession
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Louisiana Purchase

2,000 mile trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon used by many pioneers during the 1840s

• Trail of Tears
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Western Trail
• Oregon Trail

Jefferson sent __________ on an expedition to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.

• Brigham Young
• Meriwether Lewis & Wiliam Clark
• Zebulon Pike
• Andrew Jackson

Policy created by President James Monroe in 1823, that stated the United States would not tolerate any European interventions in the Americas.

• Homestead Act
• Monroe Doctrine
• Indian Removal Act
• Manifest Destiny

7th president; famously known for signing the Indian Removal Act

• Andrew Jackson
• James Monroe
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Adams