Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz Crossword
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
 
 
Down: 1) supplies to help complete a task; resources needed for an expedition include books, maps, food, clothing, shelter, medical supplies, and transportation 2) the expedition sent by President Thomas Jefferson, and led by Lewis & Clark, to explore the newly purchased Louisiana territory3) across the continent; the transcontinental railroad stretched across the continent of North America 4) different from each other in terms of ideas and ways of life6) 1- a large body of people associated with a particular territory 2- a member tribe of an American Indian Confederation 7) the United State’s purchase of the Louisiana territory from France in 180311) being moved from one location to another; Native American nations were displaced by the U.S. government 12) a movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new home in another country or area14) to deal or bargain (see above definition) with an individual or group, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract15) the first people from a particular group to move to a new place and begin living there; in the 1800s, the settlers who moved to the West were pioneers16) an area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to live on Across: 5) gaining ownership of land8) a person who studies or is an expert in natural history like a zoologist (animals) or botanist(plants)9) large regions of land; within the United States territories often refers to the areas that have not yet been organized as states10) a compromise in Congress that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state; it also banned any slave states north of a line even with Missouri’s southern border13) a journey for a specific purpose, such as exploration17) an agreement between individuals or groups of people settling what each shall give and take in order to get what they desire18) a person’s ideas or opinions based on the facts known by them to be true19) “Obvious Fate”; in the 1800s, many Americans believed that it was natural and right for the United State to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean20) the act or process of expanding the nation; the United States expanded its land ownership with the Louisiana Purchase
 

 

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