Westward Expansion

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  1. 2. For a nation to gain new lands through any method and extend its borders.
  2. 5. It was a law passed in 1830 that made many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River.
  3. 7. A 2,000 mile long pioneer trail that changed the western side of the United States.
  4. 8. It was the forced removal of the Cherokee’s from their homeland, and they had to go to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
  5. 9. It is a disease caused by consumption of contaminated food and water.
  6. 10. After a discovery of gold in California in 1848, there was mass migration to the area in hopes of finding gold.
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  1. 1. A war through 1846 and 1848 between the United States and Mexico. The United States won and gained more than half of Mexico’s land.
  2. 3. It was an 1800s belief that the United States has the god given right to expanded west to the Pacific Ocean.
  3. 4. The people from the East that came to California in 1849 after the recent discovery of gold in it.
  4. 6. The direction the United States was expanding and the region of the United States that includes the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the lands near the Pacific Ocean in North America.