Westward Expansion Vocabulary / Geography

1823 American foreign policy warning European powers to stay out of the Americas; allowed the United States to focus on internal improvements such as westward expansion

• Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)

A series of improvements in technology that transformed society to be more machine based, encouraged westward expansion by making it easier to travel and communicate

• Industrial Revolution
• Oregon Trail
• President James K. Polk
• Gadsden Purchase (1853)

a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber, made cotton more profitable and led to an increase in slavery in the US

• Cotton Gin
• Texas Annexation (1845)
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
• Industrial Revolution

Trail from independence Missouri to Oregon used by many pioneers during the 1840s, used for families to gain a fresh start and adventure

• Oregon Trail
• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Industrial Revolution
• steam engine

Trail used in the 1840s for Mormons to move to Salt Lake City, Utah to escape religious persecution

• Mormon Trail
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Cotton Gin

Trails used in the early 1800ss for trade with Native Americans and Spanish settlers

• Santa Fe Trail / Old Spanish Trail
• Manifest Destiny
• Mormon Trail
• Mexican-American War

The belief that the U.S. should extend all the way to the pacific ocean

• Manifest Destiny
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
• Mexican Cession
• Cotton Gin

1840s President who believed in Manifest Destiny for the US, his leadership helped the US gain most of the southwest from 1845-1848

• President James K. Polk
• Cotton Gin
• Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)

The U.S., under Jefferson, bought this territory from France for $15 million dollars. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size.

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Cotton Gin
• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

Negotiated to extend the US-Canadian border along the 49th parallel, gave the US Oregon Country. Helped to maintain the balance between slave and free territory when Texas was added.

• Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Santa Fe Trail / Old Spanish Trail
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
• Monroe Doctrine