Westward Expansion Vocabulary

To end, or get rid of slavery

• suffrage

• canal

• abolition

• treaty

the right to vote

• industrialization

• entrepreneur

• territory

• suffrage

a person who organizes and manages any type of business

• entrepreneur

• canal

• migration

• expansion

the process of setting up factories and businesses to make money

• abolition

• industrialization

• expansion

• manifest destiny

a manmade waterway used for transportation and shipping goods

• territory

• treaty

• canal

• abolition

the idea that it is the right of the United States to stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean

• migration

• canal

• Manifest Destiny

• suffrage

the movement of a person or a group of people to a different place

• industrialization

• abolition

• treaty

• migration

an agreement between two or more states in reference to peace or alliance

• treaty

• expansion

• canal

• entrepreneur

the growth or development of a country

• abolition

• expansion

• territory

• canal

the land and waters belonging to or under the control of a country

• territory

• manifest destiny

• expansion

• abolition