Westward Expansion

Identify the US land acquisition - 7

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• 13 Colonies

• Mexican Cession

crossing an entire continent

• frontier

• booming

• pioneer

• transcontinental

Which group DID NOT support the concept of Manifest Destiny?

• Native Americans

• farmers

• gold miners

• immigrants

Identify the US land acquisition - 2

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

adding or taking control of something - especially land

• annex

• frontier

• booming

• Manifest Destiny

During the 1840s the factors in this diagrm contributed to support for which of the following?

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the American System

• States' Rights

• Manifest Destiny

Identify the US land acquisition - 4

• Mexican Cession

• 13 Colonies

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

Which statement best describes the idea of Manifest Destiny?

• The Constitution gave U.S. the right to expand its borders.

• Americans have a God-given right to expand westward

• Americans rebel against the gov't for preventing expansion

• ALL Americans can claim land in the Western U.S.

the extreme limit of settled land

• annex

• booming

• frontier

• transcontinental

Identify the US land acquisition - 3

• Oregon

• 13 Colonies

• Texas Annexation

• Northwest Territory