Unit 7 - Westward Expansion Vocab

The transfer of land from one country to another

• Cession

• Annexation

• Cede

To discuss something in an attempt to reach agreement

• Sectionalism

• Negotiate

• Cession

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.  

• Indian-Removal Act

• Forty-Niners

• Missouri Compromise

Loyalty to a region

• Negotiate

• Cede

• Sectionalism

Legally adding land area to parts of the United States

• Annexation

• Cede

• Louisiana Purchase

A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

• Mountain Men

• Missouri Compromise

• Indian Removal Act

Fur trappers of the northwest

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mountain Men

An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mountain Men

People who went to California looking for Gold (They left in 1849)

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Forty-Niners

• Mountain Men

Territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

• Missouri Compromise

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny