Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz

A person who is among the first to explore or settle in a new area.

• 49'er

• Pioneer

• British

• American

The time period between 1803-1853 where the United States grew twice its size and spread West

• Gold Rush

• Louisiana Purchase

• Westward Expansion

• Oregon Trail

Stated that an area became  a territory when it reached 5,000 people and a state when it reached 60,000 people. 

• Northwest Ordinance

• Oregon Trail

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

The belief that the U.S. had a duty to stretch westward.

• Northwest Ordinance

• National Pride

• Manifest Destiny

• Embargo Act

The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from the French.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Louisiana Purchase

• Wilderness Trail

• War of 1812

Two explorers who mapped the area shortly after the Louisiana Purchase.

• Lewis and Sacagawea

• Sacagawea and Clark

• Lewis and Clark

• Jefferson and Madison

Closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain 

• Embargo Act

• Homestead Act

• Oregon Trail

• Northwest Ordinance

Peace treaty between U.S. and Great Britain 

• Treaty of Ghent

• Peace for all

• Olive Branch

• American Peace

something that is very hard to do.

• Success

• Challenge

• Defeat

• Luck

Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of land.

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Ghent

• Homestead Act

• Northwest Ordinance