Westward Expansion STAAR Hastings

The United States acquired the Oregon Territory when —

• a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land
• Mexico sold the territory to the United States for $10 million 
• the territory’s settlers voted for annexation by the United States
• Russia sold the land to the United States for $7.2 million

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

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 of this famous painting by John Gast?

• Manifest destiny

• American Progress

• Westward Ho!

• Louisiana Purchase

Which of these characteristics also describes these two states below?

• Founded as work colonies for debtors.
• Former slave states.
• Were havens for religious dissenters.
• Former Spanish colonies.

Which of the following best completes the diagram below?

• Slaveholding state.
• Bordered by the Pacific.
• Formerly part of Mexico.
• Dependent on heavy industry.

What effect did the mining technique described in this excerpt below have on the local environment?

• Rivers became filled with sediment.
• Reduced flooding led to an increased reliance on irrigation.
• Forests were clear-cut, and the timber was used to line tunnels and shafts.
• Farmland benefited from a change in soil composition.

What was one reason James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844? 

• He was against removing American Indians from their native lands.  
• He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.  
• He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny. 
• He opposed the extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River.  

During the 1840s the factors in this diagram below contributed to widespread support for which of the following?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• Manifest Destiny
• The American System
• States’ Rights

Which of these was a goal shared by many advocates of Manifest Destiny? 

• Abolishing slavery throughout the United States.
• Occupying all of North America.
• Withdrawing from foreign affairs.
• Returning to an agrarian economy.