Unit 5 Review

The transfer of land from one country to another

• annexation

• cession

• assimilation

• forced migration

An 1849 discovery in California that attracted many people all over the country and world to San Francisco; in hopes of getting rich; accelerated the process for California to become a state.

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Gold Rush

• Trail of Tears

Human movement flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.

• annexation

• forced migration

• assimilation

• Manifest Destiny

The law that resulted in thousands of American Indians being removed from their own lands and relocated to distant "reservations" that were generally smaller than their homelands and had defined boundaries, taking away the democratic right of property and sovereignty.

• assimilation

• Trail of Tears

• annexation

• Indian Removal Act

Legally adding land area or territory in the United States

• forced migration

• annexation

• Manifest Destiny

• cession

1803 land acquisition of a territory from France; made during Thomas Jefferson's presidency; United States gained an additional land, thus doubling its size.

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• Trail of Tears

• Gold Rush

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into "harmony" with another

• cession

• annexation

• assimilation

• forced migration

the forced removal of the Civilized Tribes from North Carolina to Oklahoma (Indian Territory.) More than 4,000 Natives died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Indian Removal Act

• Westward Expansion

doctrine or belief in the late 1840s that it was America's divine right to grow from coast (Atlantic) to coast (Pacific)

• Trail of Tears

• Westward Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Gold Rush

A movement westward in America for jobs, land, hope, the gold rush, adventure, a new beginning and the transcontinental railroad. It lasted throughout the 1800's.

• Westward Expansion

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Gold Rush