Westward Expansion SS

What great achievement is Thomas Jefferson thinking about?

• The annexation of Canada

• The purchase of land for the nation’s capital

• The California Purchase

• The Louisiana Purchase

The United States agreed to divide the Oregon Territory with:

• France

• Spain

• Great Britain

• Russia

The above headline is describing the addition of:

• Texas

• California

• Louisiana

• Florida

The Lewis and Clark Expedition explored from:

• Florida to Texas

• Oregon to California

• Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Texas was added as a territory after it became:

• An independent republic

• A colony

• A state

• A democracy

What event resulted in California and the southwest territories becoming part of the United States?

• Conflict with Great Britain

• War with France

• War with Mexico

• Treaties with Canada

The diagram above explains that people moved west between 1801 and 1861 because of:

• Economic opportunity

• Civil War in the United States

• Population growth in the western states

• Expensive land available west of the Mississippi River

The availability of cheap, fertile land and knowledge of overland trails were both:

• Reasons for the success of the suffrage movement

• Political factors that kept people from moving west

• Geographic factors that influenced westward movement

• Reasons why many southerners moved their plantations out west

Covered wagons heading west from Missouri would MOST LIKELY take which overland trail?

• Missouri or California

• Washington or Sacramento

• Oregon or Santa Fe

• Dakota or Utah

The idea that expansion to the Pacific Ocean was good for and the right of the country is known as:

• Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny California Gold Rush Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Manifest Destiny

• California Gold Rush

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo