Early Westward Expansion

the idea that America was destined by God to overspread and possess the whole North American continent and establish its liberty, ideas and government throughout

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Wilderness Plan

• Go West Young Man

Westward Expansion can best be described as...

• movement for American to expand west into North America

• A plan to settle Western Canada

• A exploration of lands west of the Mississippi by Lewis and Clark

• the failed idea to conquer Mexico and make it a part of the United States

What is the name of the pioneer that first took settlers west of the Appalachian Mtns through the Cumberland Gap?

What is the name of the trail that took settlers through the Cumberland Gap into the western frontier east of the Mississippi?

What land purchase by President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the country to the west?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Texas Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase

• Jefferson Purchase

How would you feel about exploring the wilderness out west like Lewis and Clark or moving west like the early settlers?

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What early road connected Maryland to new cities in the Northwest Territory and eventually the entire country coast-to-coast?

• Wilderness Road

• Oregon Trail

• National Road a.k.a Cumberland Road

• Cumberland Gap

Click on the effects that the Erie Canal had on the nation. (3 correct answers)

• •Increased trade between East and Northwest Territory which was now becoming states

• It led to the failure of New York as a major trading hub and the decline of trade with new cities in the Northwest Territory

• •Increased the amount of trade that went through NYC making it the #1 trade port in the US

• •Helped manufactured goods and settlers move west; and crops from Northwest come back to the east

• helped with the transportation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean