Westward Expansion

Isabel Sojourner Truth

A former slave who traveled the country speaking out against slavery and equal right for women. She was an abolitionist.

Susan B. Anthony

Women’s suffrage leader who worked to enable women to have the same rights as men

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A leader of the Suffrage Movement who worked with Susan B. Anthony. She organized the first convention for women’s right.

Abolitionist

A person who wanted to end slavery.

Eli Whitney

American Inventor who invented the cotton gin which increased the production of cotton.

Jo Anderson

A slave who worked with Cyrus McCormick to invent the reaper.

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the reaper for harvesting wheat

Pioneer

A person who leads the way into new areas.

Harriet Tubman

Abolitionist and former slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She led 300 slaves to freedom.

Frederick Douglas

Was a former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist.

William Lloyd Garrison

American abolitionist who started a newspaper called The Liberator. He believed slavery was immoral and demanded that the slaves be immediately freed.

Suffrage

The right to vote in local or national elections.

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer chosen by Thomas Jefferson to be a pathfinder in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

William Clark

American explorer who aided Meriwether Lewis in an expedition through the Louisiana Purchase.

Robert Fulton

Improved the steamboat which eventually provided faster river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories.

Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson bought land from France

Manifest Destiny

The belief

Florida Acquisition

Spain gave Florida to the Untied States through a treaty.

Texas Annexation

Texas was added to the United States after it became an independent republic.

Acquisition of Oregon Country

Was divided between the United States and Great Britain.

Mexican Cession (California)

War with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States.

Suffragist

Someone who believes that women should have the right to vote.