Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Adding territory to a country

• Annexation

• Division

• Contraction

Land that is given up by one country to another

• Surrender
• Acquisition
• Cession

To move in a direction or to grow

• regress
• stagnate
• expansion

People from around the world seeking to find gold in the California gold mines in 1849

• Forty-Niner

• Mormon

• Carpetbagger

The belief it was God’s will, or destiny, for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

• Divine Expansion
• Fate Fulfillment
• Manifest Destiny

Religious group and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who were persecuted for their religious beliefs. Their leader was Brigham Young.

• Amish
• Mormons
• Buddhists

People have the power or authority to vote

• Dictatorship
• Anarchy
• Popular Sovereignty

Crossing a continent

• Transcontinental

• Intercontinental

• worldwide

Buying or obtaining an asset or object.

• Acquisition
• Trade
• Donation