Unit 3 Vocabulary Westward Expansion

The belief that the United States was destined by God to extend its boundaries westward to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Migration

• Joint Occupation

A person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else.

• Emigrant

• Migration

• Pioneers

1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, doubled the size of the US. This is an example of?

• Extraterrestrial Expansion

• Northern Expansion

• Gadsden Purchase

• Territorial Expansion

Manifest Destiny

• The idea that we need to take all of the land away from Native Americans

• The obvious fate or destiny of the United States to own and control the entire continent

• The ideas that Americans wanted to take over the entire world

Why was the Louisiana Purchase so monumental?

• It was our first trade

• It doubled the size of the US

• We were grateful France was helping us

• We went to war to get it

What direction were the Natives pushed from their homelands?

• North

• North East

• East

• West

Which territory doubled the size of the United States and was explored by Lewis and Clarke?

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What was the Louisiana purchase?

• It was land in Paris.

• Land was purchased from France that expanded the United States by 828,000 miles.

• Land in Mexico purchased for the natural resources.

The belief that each "people" should have their own country is what?

• Nationalism

• Socialism

• Liberalism

• Countryism

What is foreign policy?

• a country’s relations with other nations
• international trade policy
• sending diplomats to global conferences
• protection of overseas interests