Unit 5 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Doubled the land of the US
  2. 7. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California
  3. 8. President who signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830
  4. 10. native American tribes relocated to land that would later become Oklahoma.
  5. 11. hired to learn more about the land west of the Mississippi River
  6. 13. President who acquired the Louisiana Purchase
  7. 14. The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  8. 15. Main route people used to move West in 1820’s for land and opportunity.
  9. 16. another war between the US and Britain
  10. 17. expanded the plantation system. Created by Eli Whitney.
  11. 18. kidnapping US sailors and forcing them to work on British ships
  12. 19. Completed in 1869. Connected the US from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Down
  1. 1. a notch in the Appalachian Mountains Helped people move west.
  2. 2. served as the principal route from the East Coast colonies to the interior lands drained by the Ohio River.
  3. 4. Helped build western sections of the Transcontinental Railroad.
  4. 5. Made the production of goods more efficient.
  5. 6. Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830
  6. 9. wrote the poem “Defense of Fort M’Henry”
  7. 12. winning allowed for growth South and west