Westward Expansion
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- capitalist
- person who invests in a business in order to make a profit
- Louisina Purchase
- Vast territory between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains, purchased from France in 1803
- Atlas
- A collection of maps
- Urbanization
- Process of population's shifting from farms to cities
- continental divide
- Mountain ridge that separates river systems flowing toward opposite sides of continent
- Population
- The number of people living in a certain area
- Agriculture
- The production of crops and livestock or cultivating soil
- Expedition
- A long voyage of exploration
- Manifest Destiny
- A belief that Americans had the right and duty to spread across the continent all the way to the Pacific
- Cede
- To give up
- Cession
- Surrendering of a Territory