Unit 5-Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion

Which map shows the boundaries of the United States just after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

• A

• B

• C

• D

The United States acquired the Oregon Territory when —

• a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land

• Mexico sold the territory to the United States for $10 million

• the territory’s settlers voted for annexation by the United States

• Russia sold the land to the United States for $7.2 million

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

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

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

What piece of land was purchased in order to build something in the Southwest? What did they want to build?

• Mexican Cession/Trails

• Louisiana Territory/Canals

• transcontinental/Oregon Country

• Gadsden Purchase/Railroad

In 1846, war broke out between the United States and Mexico. What was the main cause of this war?

• a dispute over the number of settlers in the Oregon Territory
• issues arising over the boundaries of Texas
• the discovery of gold in California
• the relocation of American Indians from the Southeast

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

• Forty Niners

• Gold diggers

• Golden Arches

• Seventy Sixers

Immigrated to the West during the Gold Rush, faced discrimination by the white settlers

• Chinese

• Mexicans

• Irish

• English

A religious group that went west to Utah to practice their religion freely

• Protestants

• Catholics

• Mormons

• Methodists

Occurred because of Manifest Destiny and the Annexation of Texas. the United States wins the war and pays Mexico $15 million for the Mexican Cession.

• U.S. - Mexican War

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• War of 1812