pioneers - people who first settle a new place, Frontier - The edge of settlement, Daniel Boone - American pioneer who built the Wilderness Road for settlers to travel west., Napoleon Bonaparte - French leader who sold Louisiana to the United States., Louisiana Purchase - The United States bought Louisiana for $15 million from France and doubled the size of the U.S., Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - Explorers hired by president Jefferson to learn all about the land west of the Mississippi River., Sacagawea - Shoshone Indian woman who helped translate for Lewis and Clark on their expedition., Tecumseh - Shawnee Indian who wanted to unite Indians of Northwest Territory into a confederation., Nationalism - Pride in the country, Monroe Doctrine - Declared that United States would go to war to keep European countries from expanding their American empires, War between Mexico and United States - Gave the U.S. California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming-land known as Mexican Cession-when Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, Trail of Tears - A journey west that many groups of Indians were forced to make and on which many died from cold, hunger, and disease., Indian Removal Act - An act stating that all Indians east of the Mississippi River must leave their land and move west., Why people expanded to the West - The gold rush, Job opportunities, Manifest destiny, Manifest Destiny - The idea that the United States had a right to add territory until it reached the Pacific Ocean., James Monroe - President who wanted to stop European growth in America, Forty-niners - Gold seekers, James Polk - President who sent troops into land bordered by Texas and Mexico, War of 1812 - Americans against British-no clear winner but Indians suffered most. Americans were very proud.,

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