Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny

What is the territory identified in the picture the U.S. acquired in 1819?

• Florida

• Thirteen Colonies

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon County

What is the territory the U.S. acquired in 1848 identified in the picture? 

• Florida Purchase
• Thirteen Colonies
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon County

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size. 

• Texas Annexation 
• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Territory
• Mexican Cession

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

The primary goal of manifest destiny was

• End slavery in the new territories
• removal of European influence from South America
• expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean
• secession of southern states from the nation

The name given to the group of pioneers who went to California during the Gold Rush

• Forty Niners

• Gold diggers

• Golden Arches

• Seventy Sixers

What is the name of the area identified by an X on the map?

• Oregon Country

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Territory

The idea that American should stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific was called

• annexation

• expansion

• manifest destiny

• sectionalism

Name the piece of land.

• Mexican Cession
• Northwest Territory 
• Trans-Appalachian West 
• Oregon Country 

As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?

• They agreed to give up their land.
• They were given their choice of where to live.
• They were forced to live in reservations.
• They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.

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