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| Oregon Trail | trail that began in Missouri and went to Portland, Oregon |
| Santa Fe Trail | trail that led to New Mexico-Main trail to the Soutwest |
| This country gave Florida to the United States through a treaty. | Spain |
| frontier | any new or unexplored area |
| pioneer | a person who is the first or among the first to explore or settle a region |
| Texas | This independent republic in the southwest U.S. was taken by the U.S. |
| Independence | The starting city of the Oregon Trail. |
| Gold Rush | a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold had been discovered (California in 1849) |
| Monroe Doctrine | The statement to Europeans to stay out of the U.S. |
| Manifest Destiny | The idea that expansion was for the good and was the right of the country |
| New Orleans | The city the U.S. intended to buy from France. |
| Louisiana Purchase | In 1803, the French sold New Orleans and the rest of the Louisiana Territory for $15 million dollars to the United States and President Jefferson |
| New Orleans | a port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River,in the Louisiana Territory |
| Louis and Clark | these explorers, of the Louisian Purchase, started in Missouri in 1804,traveled the Missouri River, crossed the Rocky Mountains, canoed down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean in Portland Oregon. |
| Susan B. Anthony | A leader of the women's suffragist movement. |
| California Gold Rush | In 1849, many people traveled to California to make there fortune by searching for gold |
| William Lloyd Garrison | An abolitionist and white newspaper owner. |
| Cyrus McCormick & Jo Anderson | This team invented the reaper. |
| Robert Fulton | He improved the steamboat. |
| Eli Whitney | He invented the cotton gin. |
| Frederick Douglas | An African-American abolitionist (man). |
| Harriet Tubman | A former slave woman who fought against slavery. |
| Abolitionist | One who wants slavery to end. |
| Suffragist | One who wants women to vote. |
| James Madison | President during the War of 1812. |
| Respect | What the U.S. won as a result of the War of 1812. |
| California | War with Mexico resulted in _____ and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States. |
| Mississippi River | This forms the eastern edge of the LouisianaTerritory. |
| Pacific Ocean | Lewis and Clark explored west until they reached the ________. |
| Fertile Land | Land that is good for farming. |
| Florida | Won in a treaty from Spain |
| Treaty of Paris | Won land for the US west of the colonies |
| Isabella Sojourner Truth | An African American suffragist |
| Erie Canal | Manmade water route in the Northeast |
| steam locomotive | provided faster land transportation |
