Westward Expansion Review

Which of these terms describes the idea that Americans had the God-given right to expand across the continent?

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Territorial Acquisition

• Annexation

Select THREE: How did Americans settling in Texas disobey Mexican laws?

• They brought slaves into Texas

• They refused to become Mexican Citizens

• They did not convert to Catholicism

• They began to form cities and town

What was the name of America's first major territorial acquisition?

• The Mexican Cession

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Annexation of Texas

• The Gadsden Purchase

Why did President Thomas Jefferson want to expand the size of the country?

• He wanted America to spread slavery into the west

• He wanted to become more popular than George Washington

• He wanted more land so Americans could start small farms

Why were some Americans opposed to the annexation of Texas?

• it might start a war with Great Britain

• Texas did not have fertile farmland

• Texas would become a slave state which meant that slavery would be expanding into the West

The Louisiana Purchase______________the size of the US

• tripled

• doubled

• decreased

• quadrupled

Which document ended the Mexican-American war?

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Indian Removal Act

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Louisiana Purchase

SELECT TWO: Some Americans believed war with Mexico was unjustified because

• Americans provoked Mexico into starting the war

• Mexico fired the first shots of the war

• Mexico wanted the US to give back the territory of Texas

• Americans wanted to take territory from Mexico in order to spread cotton and slavery

PICK TWO: Name the two explorers sent by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory

• John O'Sullivan

• Merriwether Lewis

• William Clark

• John Melish

How did some President Polk justify the war with Mexico?

• Mexico was a stronger nation that was picking on its weaker neighbor to the north

• General Santa Anna had provoked America to fire first

• Mexicans had attacked American soldiers on the American side of the Rio Grande