Westward Expansion Vocabulary Practice

Thousands of people rushed to California from all over the world to search for gold

• California Gold Rush

• Forty-Niners

• Pioneers

• Manifest Destiny

Native American tribes that lived in the southeastern United States who lived in a similar way to the white man (Anglo-American) during the early 1800s.

• Five-Civilized Tribes

• Indian Removal Act

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

A law passed by Andrew Jackson that forced Native Americans off of their homelands so America could have more land available for movement of settlers out west.

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

2 explorers were hired to travel through the newly purchased territory out west. The purpose of this journey was to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean and establish relationships with Native Americans.

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Indian Removal Act

• Reservation

• Louisiana Purchase

An idea established by John O'Sullivan that it is the U.S.'s purpose to spread throughout North America and possibly other continents.

• manifest destiny

• nationalism

• pioneer

• whig party

Loyalty and devotion to a nation, a feeling that the nation and its people are one and that the interests of the nation are more important than those of individuals or groups

• Nationalism

• pioneer

• Panic of 1837

• Reservation

one of the main routes used by settlers traveling to the far western United States

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• California Gold Rush

• Reservation

A $15 million dollar purchase of land from France by the United States.

• Louisiana Purchase

• California Gold Rush

• Indian Removal Act

• Reservation

a financial crisis that affected the United States when Andrew Jackson closed the Second National Bank of the U.S.

• Panic of 1837

• Republic of Texas

• War of 1812

• Louisiana Purchase

a person who is one of the first to do something new, such as explore a new territory or create a new technique or technology

• Pioneer

• Whig Party

• Forty-Niners

• Nationalism