America Expands Westward Ch 12

How many people were required to live in a territory before it could apply to become a state?

• 5,000

• 60,000

• 10,000

• 500

The Northwest Ordinance provided a pathway for territories to apply for

• statehood
• federal funding
• infrastructure grants

What was NOT allowed in the new NW Territory according to the Northwest Ordinance? 

• Slavery
• Freedoms
• Trading
• Farming 

What did Thomas Jefferson purchase in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States?

• Africa

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gulf of Mexico

• Oregon Territories

After Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase what did he do next?

• Went star gazing

• made peace with the Native Americans on the Louisiana Purchase

• went hunting on the land

• sent Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark on Expedition to explore the newly purchased land.

How did the Louisiana Purchase effect the geography of the United States?

• it tripled the size of the U.S.
• it had no effect
• it doubled the size of the U.S.

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

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 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