Unit 4: American Expansion

What impact did the Louisiana Purchase have on the United States?

• It decreased international tensions.

• It doubled the size of the nation's territory.

• It gave the United States control of all of North America.

• It created an alliance between the United States and France.

How did the Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803) change the government?

• It expanded the efforts to control the executive branch.

• It gave states the right to reverse federal laws.

• It removed constitutional limits on congressional power.

• It created judicial review.

Why did President Madison ask Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812?

• To stop British aggression against Americans in the Atlantic and Northwest Territory

• To increase public support for an American takeover of Canada

• To create conditions for forming an alliance with France

• To deal with British opposition to the Louisiana Purchase

In addition to British troops, who did the United States fight against during the War of 1812?

• French settlers

• Barbary pirates

• Spanish soldiers

• Native Americans

What was the most significant outcome of the Battle of New Orleans?

• It forced the British to surrender control of forts along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast.

• It took place after the War of 1812 was officially over and showed the US military was powerful.

• It broke the British blockade that was preventing US forces from receiving needed supplies.

• It convinced many Native Americans that they should switch sides and fight for the US.

What did the British do during their invasion of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812?

• They burned the Capitol building and the White House.

• They imprisoned members of Congress who had not fled.

• They took President Madison and his wife hostage.

• They destroyed the Declaration of Independence.

An example of impressment is when a British warship captures an American ship and ____.

• forces the crew to serve the British navy.

• uses it to fight other American ships.

• makes the crew work as plantation slaves.

• sells all its cargo before it is sunk.

Which resulted from increased tensions between American settlers and Native Americans in the Northwest Territory?

• the War of 1812

• the Hartford Convention

• the Louisiana Purchase

• the Mexican-American War

In his Monroe Doctrine speech, President Monroe claimed that the United States would ____.

• pursue control of Europe and take over the continent.

• stay out of European affairs and Europe should stay out of Latin America.

• provide aid to independence movements in Latin America , Canada, and Europe.

• declare war on nations that interfered with its trade to Asia.

How did the United States acquire Florida?

• by defeating the French

• by defeating the British

• by buying it from Spain

• by buying it from Britain