Unit 6/7 Check #2 Manifest Destiny & Westward Growth

How did the provisions of the Northwest Ordiance affect U.S. expansion?

• By funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions

• By establishing a process for territories to govern themselves

• By promoting the growth of southern plantation economies

• By creating a national bank to loan money to land investors

The Northwest Ordinance established guidelines for the orderly expansion of the United States by instituting a -

• method to purchase territory from foreign powers

• procedure for military takeovers of existing countries

• process through which states could be added to the Union

• compromise line that prohibited slavery in the West

The Northwest Ordinance is considered a historical milestone because it --

• more than doubled the size of the United States

• established a method for admitting new states to the Union

• encouraged state legislatures to ratify the Constitution

• proposed treaties with American Indians to allow the peaceful settlement of new territories

Manifest Destiny

• adding or taking control of something, especially territory

• belief in the God-given right that America should occupy all lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

annex

• a period of great prosperity or rapid growth

• adding or taking control of something, especially territory

booming

• a period of great prosperity or rapid growth

• crossing an entire continent

transcontinental

• crossing an entire continent

• moving from one place to another

migration

• a period of great prosperity or rapid growth

• moving from one place to another

Which numbered area did the United States acquire in 1846 after negotiations with Great Britain?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

As a result of the Oregon Treaty, the United States achieved its goal of --

• expanding westward to the Pacific Ocean

• acquiring land for a southwestern railroad

• reserving western territory for Native Americans

• securing the southern border of the country