Westward Expansion

French political thinker best known for his book Democracy in America

that named five great values on why America was exceptional

• Alexis de Tocqueville

• Egalitarianism

• Individualism

• Populism

The state of being free within society

• Egalitarianism

• Individualism

• Liberty

• Populism

The doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities

• Liberty

• Populism

• Egalitarianism

• Individualism

The principle of being independent and self-reliant

• Laissez-faire

• Liberty

• Populism

• Individualism

An ideology where supporters of a political party support the common people

• Populism

• Laissez-faire

• Liberty

• Egalitarianism

The idea that the government should not interfere with or regulate big businesses or industries

• Individualism

• Laissez-faire

• Liberty

• Egalitarianism

A distant area where few people live

• The Great Plains

• Homestead Act of 1862

• frontier

• Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

The first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

• Homestead Act

• Seneca Falls Convention

• The Great Plains

• frontier

A broad expanse of flat land extending from Canada down to North Texas; Prairie land

• frontier

• Seneca Falls Convention

• The Great Plains

• Homestead Act of 1862

A significant piece of legislation in the United States that aimed to promote westward expansion by providing 160 acres of public land

• Seneca Falls Convention

• The Great Plains

• Homestead Act of 1862

• frontier