Northern Lights Ch 6 "The Land Changes Hands" Vocab Review

Westward Expansion

• A written agreement between two or more sovereign nations in the west

• Something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services

• Movement of people from the eastern US to the Midwest and West in 1800s

• To formally give up something in the west

Louisiana Purchase

• The land purchased by Zebulon Pike

• The land Pres. Thomas Jefferson purchased from France in 1803 which almost doubled the size of the U.S.

• The land Pres. Thomas Jefferson purchased which later became the state of Louisiana

• The U.S. gov’t approached the Dakota to propose the sale of their land

Treaty

• A written agreement between two or more sovereign nations

• Something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services

• A yummy snack

• To formally give up something

George Bonga

• Missionary who wanted to convert the Dakota to Christianity

• Fur trader and interpreter who assisted with the Dakota treaties

• Minnesota’s most powerful fur trader

• Fur trader and interpreter who assisted with the Ojibwe treaties

Traders Paper

• Document signed after TdS treaty giving permission to trade on native land

• Document signed after TdS treaty, said Ojibwe would pay back the gov't with treaty money 

• Document signed after TdS treaty, said Dakota would pay back the traders with treaty money 

• Annual payment of food and money paid to American Indians in return for their land

Cede

• To formally give up something

• Changing to adopt the values and habits of a larger group

• Annual payment of food and money paid to American Indians in return for their land

• Something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services

Zebulon Pike

• Fur trader and interpreter who assisted with the Ojibwe treaties

• One-eyed tavern owner

• Minnesota’s most powerful fur trader

• Sent by US gov't to acquire land to build a fort, a military post named Fort Snelling

  Made the first treaty with the Dakota in 1805 

Manifest Destiny

• To formally give up something

• To approve formally

• A cultural belief in the 1800s U.S. that American settlers were destined to expand across North America

• Something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services

Ratify

• Changing to adopt the values and habits of a larger group

• Area where Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH lived

• To approve formally

• To formally give up something

Stephen Riggs

• One-eyed tavern owner

• Minnesota’s most powerful fur trader

• Sent by US gov't to acquire land to build a fort, a military post named Fort Snelling

  Made the first treaty with the Dakota in 1805

• Missionary who wanted to convert the Dakota to Christianity