Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz

This Territory was added in 1803 and doubled the United States in size...

• Northwest Territory

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

This treaty ended the war with Mexico; U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession for $15 million

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• Treaty of Guadalupe River

• Treaty of Paris

Idea that America had the right to all the land between the east and west coasts

• Manifest Destitute

• Magna Carta

• Manifest Destiny

Cession is ...

• idea that America had the right to all the land between the east and west coasts

• the formal giving up of rights, property, or territory

• the formal giving up in fights

land was used for a Trans-Continental Railroad; this purchase completed the present day borders of the continental U.S

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Country

Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Territory in this year.

• 1803

• 1804

• 1802

Spain gave Florida to the U.S. in this treaty

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• Gadsden Purchase 1853

• Adams-Onis Treaty 1819

America proved it could defend itself during this war.

• Mexican-American War

• War of 1812

• American Revolution

Problems that cause people to move (famine, war, poverty, persecution)

• push factor

• pull factor

• least common factor

Attractions that draw people to a place (jobs, rights, opportunity)

• push factor

• pull factor

• fear factor