Westward Expansion

Which map shows the boundaries of the United States just after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which quotation from this letter reveals the main reason for the surge in Irish immigration to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century?

• “I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land of plenty.”
• “I would advise all my friends to quit Ireland. . . .”
• “What you labour for is sweetened by contentment and happiness. . . .”
• “There is no failure in the potato crop. . . .”

Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to

• obey the Book of Mormon
• prosper in the fur trade
• seek out religious freedom
• gold

What is the territory identified in the picture the U.S. acquired in 1819? 

• Florida Purchase
• Thirteen Colonies
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon County

What is the territory the U.S. acquired in 1848 identified in the picture? 

• Florida Purchase
• Thirteen Colonies
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon County

The territory the U.S. acquired in 1846 that settled a boundary dispute at the 49th parallel with Britain identified in the picture? 

• Florida Purchase
• Thirteen Colonies
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon County

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size. 

• Texas Annexation 
• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Territory
• Mexican Cession

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

What piece of land was purchased in 1853 in order to build something in the South? What did they want to build?

• Mexican Cession/Trails

• Louisiana Territory/Canals

• transcontinental/Oregon Country

• Gadsden Purchase/Railroad

The primary goal of manifest destiny was

• End slavery in the new territories
• removal of European influence from South America
• expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean
• secession of southern states from the nation