Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz Review

To get or come to have as one's own

• Territory

• Acquire

• Annexed

• Expand

Jefferson bought land from France which doubled the size of the United States

Given to the US from Spain through the Adams Onis Treaty

• Texas

• California

• Florida

• Louisiana

A deal or treaty between the US and Mexico in 1854 for land that is now apart of Arizona and New Mexico

• Adams Onis Treaty

• Gasden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

• Treaty of Paris

The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and for the right of the country

• Manifest Destiny

• American Revolution

• The Great Awakening

• Knowledge of Overland Trails

To add or attach to something larger

• Expand

• Annexed

• Treaty

• Purchase

Added after it became an independent republic

• California

• Mexico

• Texas

• Florida

As part of the American Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation and other tribes were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to relocate to an area in present day Oklahoma

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

• Cultural Interaction

Authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern tribes exchanging their lands for land in the West

A person who is the first to think of or make something

• Entrepreneur

• Inventor

• Investor

• Professional