Manifest Destiny Review

This group went west for isolation and to escape religious persecution

• Mormons

• Native Americans

• Settlers

• Texans

Many trails that headed west, including the Santa Fe and Oregon trails, started in this city....

• St. Louis, Missouri

• Kansas City, Kansas

• Independence, Missouri

• Chanute, Kansas

The compromise between the U.S. and Britain settle on a northern boundary line at ____________ degrees N latitude.

• 34

• 40

• 49

• 54

Joseph Smith Jr was the

• founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints

• leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints

• General at the Battle of the Alamo

• our 16th President

The Compromise of 1850, which ended the new Fugitive Slave Law; allowed which state into the union.

• California

• Utah

• Texas

• New Mexico

What issue did James K Polk win the 1844 election on

• compromise between Oregon and Great Britian

• Texas not joining the Union

• favoring national expansion

• vigilantes and mountain men

The Alamo was victory for which country in the war for Texas' independence?

• U.S.A.

• Texas

• Mexico

• Spain

Mexico allowed settlers from other states and territories to immigrate to Mexican Texas- what was the benefit?

• more people meant more government aid

• more people helped develop the land and boost the economy

• spreading the the language into new territories and states

• more workers to build the wall

Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States had

• the most cheap fertile land to grow crops

• the first true government by the people

• the right and duty to expand the continent from coast to coast

• the right to expand slavery from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean

Brigham Young, has a university named after him, and is the

• founder of the minute men

• founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• founder of the New York Yankees

• founder of Church of Our Lady Notre Dame