Go West vocabulary

Forty-Niner

• Football player

• person who went to California during the gold rush of 1849

• Someone who died before age 50

• An old timer

Louisiana Purchase

• The U.S. couldn't close the deal

• Exploring the west coast

• territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

• Territory that the U.S. bought from Spain in what is now Texas

territory

• a region of land; also, a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor

• A state

• A place where no one lives

• Vast wilderness

annex

• The attic of a house

• Giving away land

• to add a territory to a country.

• Building new cities and towns

Indian Removal Act

• Honoring Native American tribes and cultures

• Protections for Native American tribes and their ancestral lands

• The designation of federally recognized territories for Native Americans

• A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River in 1830

Diplomacy

• Forcing someone else to do what you want

• The practice of conducting negotiations between countries

• Business between two states

• Sales of land or goods

Mexican Cession

• Territory that the United States gained as a result of the war between US and Mexico.

• Land that the U.S. gave to Mexico

• Land that Mexico gave to France

• Land that the British gave to Mexico

The belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent is called:

• Original Sin

• Manifest Destiny

• Founding Fathers

• Declaration of Independence

The Oregon Trail was:

• an overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Columbia River in Oregon

• A game designed for kids in the '80s

• Where families took vacations

• The route followed by the forty-niners to get to gold

A person who first settles a new place is:

• A mountain man

• A pioneer

• A forty-niner

• Mormon