Westward Expansion

The belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific and it did!

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Trail of Tears

• political geography

study of borders set up by people and how natural resources are distributed around the world which affects trade and war

• Manifest Destiny

• Political Geography

• treaty

• economics

Answer explanation

an area of land that is outside the borders of a nation, but owned or claimed by that nation.

• annexation

• territory

• settler

• political geography

land that was obtained through purchase (we bought it)

• Annexation

• Natural resources

• Acquisition

• Manifest Destiny

disagreement, argument or war between two or more groups such as countries

• Annexation

• War

• Change

• Conflict

an agreement between countries

• change

• acquisition

• annexation

• treaty

Resources directly from nature

-- like forests, rivers, gold, fish, or soil for farming.

• annexation

• natural resources

• political geography

• Western Expansion

when a country declares possession of a piece of land outside its borders?

• Annexation

• treaty

• manifest destiny

• acquisition

Select all examples of Natural Resources

• Rivers

• Climate

• Gold

• Forests

the first people to live in an area

• Indigenous people

• Seminole

• Settlers

• Colonists