Westward Expansion Vocab plus territories quiz

A man made water constructed to allow the passage of boats

• Canal

• Temperance

• Suffrage

• Nativism

a type of economic model where the government places very few restrictions on the types of business activities or ownership that citizens want to engage in 

• Urban

• Free Enterprise

• Capital

• Cession

Acquire new land from another country and make it your own 

• Rural

• Suffrage

• Cession

• Annex

When you give something up after being defeated usually at the end of a war 

• Cession

• Sectionalism

• Temperance

• Annex

Philosophy that stressed a return to nature over material things

• Transcendentalism

• Sectionalism

• Reform

• Nativism

Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

• Transcendentalism

• Sectionalism

• Immigration

• Urbanization

Abolition

• Desire to keep slavery alive

• Desire to extend slavery into the west

• Desire to ban slavery

• Desire to reinstitute indentured servitude

Urbanization

• When the population stays at the same location

• When the population leaves for another country

• When the population shifts from urban to rural areas

• When the population shifts from rural to urban areas

Industrialization

• Changing of society from subsistence farming to mass production, big cities and factories.

• Changing of society from mass production, big cities, and factories to subsistence farming.

• The breakdown of all societal norms

• The return to collectivism

Agriculture

• Fancy word for farming

• Fancy word for building

• Fancy word for producing

• Fancy word for trading