Westward Expansion Review

the concept of American exceptionalism, that is, the belief that America occupies a special place among the countries of the world.

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansionism

• White Man's Burden

• Oregon Expansion

A roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west.

• Miami Trail

• Louisiana Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Mexican Trail

the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.

• Trail

• Frontier

• native America

• Cumberland gap

It is the first gateway to west

• Cumberland Gap

• Oregon Trail

• Westward Trail

• Continental Divide

A naturally occurring boundary or ridge separating a continent’s river systems.

• Continental Divide

• Cumberland Gap

• Oregon Trail

• Mississippi Trail

A law that allowed the federal government to forcibly remove Native American tribes from their ancestral land in Southeaster United States to territory west of Mississippi River.

• Tea Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

battle during the Texas Revolution that occurred from February 23 to March 6, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas.

• Battle of Alamo

• Battle of Fallen Timber

• Battle of Mexico

• Battle of Wabash

The first defeat of U.S against Shawnee chiefs. Also known as St. Clair's Defeat.

• Battle of Alamo

• Battle of Wabash

• Battle of Fallen Timber

• Battle of Louisiana

the culminating event that demonstrated the tenacity of the American people in their quest for western expansion and the struggle for dominance in the Old Northwest Territory.

• Battle of Wabash

• Battle of Alamo

• Battle of Fallen Timber

• Texas Revolution

The law that gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee. The Government granted more than 270 million acres of land while the law was in effect.

• Homestead act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Transcontinental Act