Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion

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

• Oregon Country

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Territory

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

• 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

Chinese immigrants in the 1800s are known for what?

• Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad

• Work in New York factories

• Contributions to the steel industry

• Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

Which port city did Jefferson want to control with the Louisiana Purchase?

• Savannah

• New Orleans

• Mexico

• Mississippi

The Louisiana Purchase

• needed Congress to pass an amendment approving it

• doubled the size of the US

• was bought from Portugal

• tripled the size of the US

Why was the port of New Orleans so important?

• It was the best place to go fishing
• It was a party town
• It was the Catholic headquaters
• It was the main center for trade along the Mississippi river

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their land, move to reservation, and assimilate into American culture.

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

• Dawes Act

• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868