Glossary

__**Expansion**__-Increasing the size or scope of something. __**Fur Trade**__-A type of trade beginning in 1670 up to the 1840s, in which men would trade fur from animals such as raccoons and beaver. __**Gold Rush**__-Migration of workers to California due to the finding of Gold; cause for the boom of population in the United States during the mid-1800s. __**Immigration**__//-//The act of coming to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence. __**Kansas-Nebraska Act**__-Act that allowed the settlement of the central and northern Great Plains; however robbed territories promised to Indians from the government. __**Lewis and Clark**__-Explorers funded by the Government and supported by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase __**Louisiana Purchase**__-Louisiana territory purchased form France; allowed Louisiana into the United States; however left the rest undecided. __**Overland Trails**__-A group of trails from the banks of the Missouri River to Oregon and California, a trip would usually take seven months. __**Spanish-American War**__-Conflict between Spain and the United States to gain the independence of Cuba; resulted in the gain of the Philippines and Puerto Rico. **__Trail of Tears__**-Mass removal of Indian tribes from the east into "Indian Territory" __**Treaty of Paris**__-Treaty ending the Revolutionary War; allowed United States to begin expansion westward. __**Wild West**__//-//The thought of the west and travel west ward as an adventurous expedition; thought of the west as majestic "wilderness".
 * __Annexation__**-The incorporation of a political entity or a geological area into a country.
 * __Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882__**-Act that excluded the Chinese from federal acts; wanted to decrease the amount of Chinese immigrants in the United States.
 * __Homestead Act__**-Government act that gave land to settlers only if they agreed to improve it over five years.
 * __Imperialism-__**The unequal power and influence of a political entity over other, weaker territories.[[image:http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/%7Ewalters/web%20103/map-Indian-removal.jpg width="452" height="328" align="right" caption="Map of Indian Removal from the east" link="http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/%7Ewalters/web%20103/map-Indian-removal.jpg"]]
 * __Indian Removal-__**19th century policy of relocating Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to the west of the river.
 * __Manifest Destiny__**-The idea that the United States was destined to expand west of North American.
 * __Mexican-American War__**-Conflict between Mexico and the United States over the rights to Texas and California; added 1.5 million square miles of territory.
 * __Migration-__**The movement of people from different geological areas. It is done voluntarily or involuntarily and for a multitude of purposes.
 * __Mormon Migration-__**The movement of more than 70,000 Mormons to lands in the West and Midwest, particularly Utah.
 * __Naturalization-__**The acquisition of citizenship of a person born in a foreign country.