Westward Expansion

What geographical obstacles did pioneers face while moving west?

• Mountain ranges, rivers, and deserts  
• Sickness or disease 
• Fighting with Native Americans 
• Bad weather or storms

What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?

• Go to war with Native Americans
• Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
• Establish the sharecropping system
• Make peace with the Native Americans

Who cooperated to develop the cattle industry?

• Ranchers and cowboys
• Mexican Americans and Irish Americans
• Farmers and Townspeople
• Native Americans and pioneers

The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• American Dream

• Manifest Destiny

• American Progress

• Mercantilism

Uncharted territory or wilderness

• Expedition

• Frontier

• Pacific

• Exploration

Acquisition of a territory by the United States from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the U.S.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Adams Onis Treaty

The discovery of this in the California territory leads to a massive immigration of settlers onto the land

• Gold

• Steel

• Mormon movement

• Crypto Craze

The name given to the group of pioneers who went to California during the Gold Rush

• Forty Niners

• Golden Nuggets

• Golden Arches

• Seventy Sixers

Immigrated to the West during the Gold Rush, faced discrimination by the white settlers

• Chinese

• Mexicans

• Irish

• English

A 2000 mile trail that stretched from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest, many pioneers traveled this to go west

• Mormon Trail

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Oregon Trail

• California Trail