Westward Expansion

a city that grows quickly in population because of a certain industry

• Boomtown

• Immigrant

• Frontier

• Trail of Tears

period of time between 1849 and 1860 when thousands of people came to California in search of gold.

• Conestoga Wagon

• Manifest Destiny

• California Gold Rush

• Voluntary Migration

covered wagon

• Indian Removal Act

• Wagon Train

• Conestoga Wagon

• Forty-Niners

large group of people who are forced to move from one place to live in another

• Immigrant

• Voluntary Migration

• Pioneers

• Forced Migration

people who came to California in 1849 in search of gold

• Forty-Niners

• Pioneers

• Immigrant

• Sod

the unsettled part of the country

• Manifest Destiny

• Trail of Tears

• Wagon Train

• Frontier

U.S. government action that forcibly removed Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River

• California Gold Rush

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

a person from one country who goes to live in another country

• Immigrant

• Boomtown

• Pioneers

• Wagon Train

19th century idea that the U.S. should expand until it reached from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• California Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Trail of Tears

speech given by President Monroe about European expansion in North America

• Forced Migration

• Conestoga Wagon

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny