U.S. Expansion Vocabulary

An agreement in which the United States acquired land from France; doubled the size of the United States

• Erie Canal

• Louisiana Purchase

• Monroe Doctrine

• Frontier

This document warned European powers not to interfere with the Americas

• Reservations

• Homestead Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Monroe Doctrine

This ran between Albany and Buffalo, New York ; allowed goods and people to move between Lake Erie and New York City.

• Erie Canal

• Cede

• Gadsden Purchase

• Annex

this executive order authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West

• Reservations

• Sacagawea

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

An 800 mile forced march was made by the Cherokee from Georgia to Indian Territory; one-fourth of Cherokee people died

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Mexican Cession

• The Alamo

the belief that the U.S. was meant to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy

• Frontier

• Reservations

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Trail of Tears

• Homestead Act

• Annex

areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans

• Spoils System

• Homestead Act

• Sacagawea

• Reservations

This legislation gave the sold cheaply government-owned land out west to small farmers

• Monroe Doctrine

• Spoils System

• The Mexican-American War

• The Homestead Act

an undeveloped area

• Annex

• frontier

• cede

• Nullify