Westward Expansion vocabulary 1

a trip or voyage for a particular purpose

• frontier

• expedition

• territory

to add land to a country

• annexation

• treaty

• Louisiana Purchase

an area of land that is under the authority of a government but is not given power to self govern

• settlers

• treaty

• territory

an agreement between two nations

• Indian Removal Act

• territory

• treaty

the edge of a country or settled region

• frontier

• Trail of Tears

• territory

someone who went to an area before it was settled

• pioneer

• Lewis & Clark

• settler

the first people to live in North America

• Native Americans

• Lewis & Clark

• settlers

American Indians were forced by the United States army to make 1,000mile trip to Indian Territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

people who move to a new land

• Native Americans

• annexation

• settlers

In 1803 land deal that doubled the area of our new country. It was purchased from France for $15 million.

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Louisiana Purchase