Unit 4 America Expands Westward

Which President depended on votes from the "Common Man" to win his election?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

• John Adams

• George Washington

What was Thomas Jefferson's main reason for acquiring the Louisiana Territory?

• To control trade along the Mississippi River

• To run away the Natives Americans

• To overrun France

• The make a legacy for himself

What country owned the Louisiana Territory before the United States?

• Britian

• Spain

• France

• Mexico

What was the significance of United States purchasing the Louisiana Territory?

• Thomas Jefferson needed a legacy for his presidency

• It was unexplored land

• U.S could sell it for a lot of money

• It doubled the size of the United States

What ideology was used by the United States to expand westward by any means?

• The land belonged to everyone

• Manifest Destiny

• Converting Native Americans to Christianity

Who owned Saint Louis before the United States

• Spain

• France

• Mexico

• Texas

What was a motivation for the United States to acquire Florida?

• Florida's trade routes

• Florida harbored runaway slaves, and Seminole Indians kept attacking Georgia land owners

• Florida had great land

• Florida had a lot of gold

Gaining lands such as Florida, Texas, Oregon, and California were all efforts of?

• To gain profit and gold

• To gain more slave states

• Manifest Destiny

• To remove Europe from America

The United States gain a large area of land in the Southwest due to?

• Revolutionary War

• Mexican-American War

• France-American War

• Native Americans removal

The U.S. Congress voted to add the

independent territory of Texas, which wanted to Join the United States which means the United States

• Annexed Texas

• Stole Texas

• Went to War for Texas

• Bought Texas