6/7 Westward Expansion Vocabulary

The amount of goods & services produced by workers in a certain amount of time.

• wagon train
• Manifest Destiny
• productivity

The devotion or love of one's country.

• campaign

• nationalism

• properity

The belief that the USA should spread across the continent, from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.

• manifest destiny

• wagon train

• boomtown

Someone who helps speakers of different languages understand one another.

• foreign policy

• nationalism

• interpreter

Parts made by a machine to be exactly the same in size and shape.

• interchangeable parts

• frontier

• wagon train

A large rectangular boat, partly covered by a roof.

• pioneer

• flatboat

• textile

The right to vote.

• annexation

• pioneer

• suffrage

A town whose population grows very quickly.

• suffrage

• frontier

• boomtown

One of the first groups of people to enter or settle in a region.

• forty-niner

• corps

• pioneer

This takes place when many people hurry to the same area to look for gold.

• gold rush

• foreign policy

• campaign