Western Expansion and Slavery

Manifest Destiny was the idea that

• white men were meant to civilize the Native Americans.

• the United States was meant to become the greatest nation on the earth.

• the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific.

• Christianity was meant to spread across the country and around the world.

What president bought the Louisiana Purchase?

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

Louisiana was purchased from

• Spain

• France

• Great Britain

• Portugal

incorporating new land to the west of the original eastern and southern states

• western expansion

• national growth

• national expansion

• imperialisms

The Missouri Compromise (select all that apply)

• Missouri became a slave state

• Maine became a free state

• Missouri became a free state

• Maine became a slave state

The Missouri Compromise tried to solve the issue of slavery being aloud in western territory by

• Allowing slavery in all of the Louisiana Territory

• Allowing slavery north of Missouri’s southern boarder

• Prohibiting slavery in all of the Louisiana Territory

• Prohibiting slavery north of Missouri’s southern boarder

What is the definition of Tejanos

• Native Texan who speak Spanish

• Native American tribe in Mexico

• Native American tribe in Texas that speaks English

• English speaking Mexicans citizens

Texas won its independence from

• The United States of America

• Mexico

• Great Britain

• Spain

In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and added more than 1 million square miles to the United States. this territory was known as

• Louisiana Territory

• Florida Territory

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession Territory

Kentucky Senator Henry Clay proposed this compromise that included California would enter the Union as a free state.

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act