Ch 15 Westward Migration Vocabulary

Definition: An artificial or man-made waterway connecting 2 or more geographic locations or features

Which vocabulary term below best fits the definition above?

• Canal

• Territory

• Manifest Destiny

Definition: Idea, popular in the 1800s, that the US was destined by God to expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

Which vocabulary term below best fits the definition above?

• Annex

• Territory

• Manifest Destiny

Definition: Large regions of land in the United States that have not been organized into states

Which vocabulary term below best fits the definition above?

• Annex

• Territory

• Cession

Definition: The act of giving up or ceding territory from one country to another. Usually done by a treaty. 

Which vocabulary term below best fits the definition above?

• Annex

• Manifest Destiny

• Cession

Definition: To add new land or territory to a country by taking control of it

Which vocabulary term below best fits the definition above?

• Annex

• Canal

• Cession