Manifest Destiny Quiz

Americans who favored territorial growth

• Abolitionist

• Free Soiler

• Expansionist

• Nationalist

Belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America

• Manifest Destiny

• Second Great Awakening

• Gold Rush

• Sectionalism

Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon that was used by pioneers in the mid-1800s

• Trail of Tears

• Missouri Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Appalachian Trail

Leader of American emigrants who settled in Austin, Texas

• Quincy Adams

• Zachary Taylor

• Santa Anna

• Stephen Austin

Texas garrison where Santa Anna executed all the defenders following the battle in 1836

• Alamo

• Irving

• Houston

• Dallas

Texas army commander, President, territorial governor and later senator

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

• Winfield Scott

Southern Democrat and expansionist elected President in 1844

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

• Winfield Scott

General who led troops at the borderland between Mexico and the US in 1846

• Sam Houston

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

• Winfield Scott

1848 agreement formally ending the Mexican-American War, included the sale of Mexican territory to the United States

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Versailles

1853 sale of Mexican territory in Arizona and New Mexico to the United States

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gadsden Purchase

• Wilmot Proviso

• The Alamo