Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz

law that set up political structure in the Northwest Territory and created a system for the admission of new states

the land area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountain that was purchased from France by President Thomas Jefferson for 15 million dollars

Native Americans were taken from their homelands and sent to land reserved for them

the path that the Cherokee went on as they were forced from their land and moved to Oklahoma

lands set aside for Native Americans for when they were moved from their homelands

leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase

formal agreement between two or more countries

something that is used to make something or meet the needs of people

the belief that it was God’s plan for the U.S to have all land in North American from the Atlantic to the Pacific

major trail used by settlers to go from Missouri to Oregon and California