USI.8 Unit 7 Review

Which of the territories on the Map is Florida?

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Which of the territories on the Map is Louisiana?

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Which of the territories on the Map is Texas?

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Which of the territories on the map is California?

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Which of the territories on the map is Oregon?

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What is Manifest Destiny?

• the idea that expansion was good for the country and its right

• the idea that women should be able to vote.

• the idea that slavery was morally wrong and should be ended immediately.

Choose all the factors that influenced westward movement:

• Population growth in eastern states, especially in cities.

• Availability of cheap, fertile land in the west.

• Economic opportunities like gold, logging, farming, and freedom.

• Cheaper and faster transportation though steamboats and trains.

• Knowledge of overland trails like the Oregon and Santa Fe trails.

What did the discovery of gold on American Indian land in Georgia lead to?

• removal of the Cherokee from Georgia

• The American Indian Removal Act

• Supreme court case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

• "Trail of Tears"

What did the American Indian Removal Act allow the government to do?

• women to vote in elections

• freed slaves on southern plantations

• allowed the government to negotiate with eastern tribes to exchange their lands for land in the west.

• allowed the state of South Carolina to secede from the United States.

What did the Cotton Gin do?

• Increased production of cotton

• Lead to an increase in slavery in the south

• increased productivity of farmers

• allowed for faster transportation