Early Western Expansion Vocabulary

A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to the west. President Jackson encouraged its passage. 

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 

• Manifest Destiny 

• Indian Removal Act 

• Trail of Tears 

The brutal, forced march of the Cherokee 800 miles to Indian Territory 

• Trail of Tears

• Louisiana Purchase 

• Gadsden Purchase 

• Indian Territory 

Gold-seeking migrants to California 

• Worcester v. Georgia 

• Frontier 

• Mountain Men 

• Forty -niners 

The Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority 

• Placer Mining 

• Worcester v. Georgia 

• Lewis and Clark 

• Manifest Destiny 

A treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory. 

• Louisiana Purchase 

• Indian Territory 

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 

• Lewis and Clark 

Land designated by Congress for Native Americans; present-day Oklahoma 

• Indian Reservation 

• Indian Territory 

• Alamo 

• Frontier

Western fur 

trappers and traders 

• Expedition 

• Lewis and Clark 

• Mountain Men

• Forty -niners 

An undeveloped area 

• Frontier

• Trail of Tears 

• Indian Reservation 

• Indian Territory 

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Chosen by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase 

• Expedition 

• Lewis and Clark 

• Frontier 

• Louisiana Purchase 

A journey 

• Frontier 

• Trail of Tears 

• Placer Mining 

• Expedition