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An area of land that is under the authority of a government but is not given the power of self-government.
a) Indian Territory
b) Louisiana Purchase
c) territory
d) Oregon Trail

To add land to a country.
a) cession
b) impressment
c) annexation
d) territory

The edge of a country or settled region.
a) boomtown
b) frontier
c) settlement
d) territory

Communities that quickly grow in population.
a) boomtown
b) frontier
c) settlement
d) territory

A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory.
a) Missouri Trail
b) Appalachian Trail
c) Trail of Tears
d) Oregon Trail

To give land to another country.
a) territory
b) frontier
c) cession
d) impressment

The area of land that American Indians were forced to move to.
a) Indian Territory
b) Oregon Territory
c) California Territory
d) Georgia Territory

The taking of workers against their will.
a) prisonment
b) impressment
c) cession
d) nationalism

President Polk declared war on Mexico over the dispute of land in Texas. (1846-1848)
a) Louisiana Purchase
b) Louisiana and France War
c) Mexican-American War
d) War of 1812

A law that ordered all the Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to move west of that river.
a) Mississippi Act
b) Louisiana Act
c) Indian Removal Act
d) Indian Territory

The 1849 discovery of gold in the Sacramento, California area that inspired the mass migration to this area.
a) Oregon Gold Rush
b) California Gold Rush
c) Texas Gold Rush
d) Mexico Gold Rush

They explored the American Northwest, newly purchased from France, and some territories beyond.
a) Lewis and Clark
b) Clark and Kennedy
c) Lewis and Sacagewea
d) Clark and Sacagewea

The 1803 land deal that doubled the area of our new country. It was purchased from France for $15 million dollars.
a) California Purchase
b) Oregon Purchase
c) Louisiana Purchase
d) Texas Purchase

People who move to a new land.
a) pioneers
b) Louis and Clark
c) settlers
d) explorers

American Indians were forced by the US Army to make the 1,000 mile trip to Indian Territory.
a) Oregon Trail
b) Trail of Tears
c) Indian Territory Trail
d) Trail of American Indians

Someone who went to an area before it was settled.
a) settler
b) pioneer
c) forty-niner
d) explorer

People who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849
a) forty-niner
b) rusher
c) gold rusher
d) California rusher

The belief that the US had the right and duty to control all of the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
a) Oregon Destiny
b) Gold Rush Destiny
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Trail of Tears Destiny

A waterway built for travel and shipping.
a) runway
b) canal
c) trail
d) territory

The first people to live in North America.
a) Europeans
b) Native Americans
c) Eskimos
d) Georgians

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