Westward Expansion Review 2021

The idea of "Manifest Destiny" during the 1800's in America meant...

• Americans felt they were limited in their movement.

• Americans believed it was their natural/God-given right to occupy the land from coast to coast.

• Texas and Mexico allowed the citizens to have free land.

• The Seminole people were permitted freedoms the other Native Americans were not allowed.

American settlers wanted to move to other areas across the continent in order to

• explore possibilities that dinosaurs still existed.

• secure areas for their businesses to prosper and grow and locate resources to help this happen.

• get away from Native American tribal nations.

• build a new national capital in the center of the continent.

Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803...

• improved relationships between the Mormons and the Natives.

• granted land necessary for the Transcontinental Railroad.

• doubled the nation's size through the purchase from France.

• was the first step in creating a National Zoo.

Sacagawea was...

• a young Shoshone woman who served as a translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition.

• Clark's indentured servant.

• a Navajo chieftain who first offered a commemorative medal to Lewis and Clark.

• a river to be crossed in the journey to the Pacific Ocean.

General Andrew Jackson who later became president...

• led a group of soldiers into Florida to control the Seminole people who lived there by capturing their forts.

• forgave the escaped enslaved people from Georgia and allowed them to live peacefully in Florida.

• was a peaceful American leader.

• paid the fair price of $20,000 to gain Florida from Spain.

Spain gave the land called "Florida" to the US in 1819 because...

• it lost the land in a bet with England.

• there was too much distance between it and the European continent.

• explorers found no reason to keep it after no gold was discovered.

• it knew if could not protect it from attacks by the American soldiers led by Andrew Jackson.

Mexico wanted to attract more settlers, so in the 1800s it...

• held a land auction where wealthy farmers bid for land.

• advertised as a travel destination in the East Coast papers.

• offered free land to all that would agree to live there under its laws.

• all of the above

Great Britain agreed to a drawn boundary between the US and Canada in 1846...

• so a blood bath ensued between the two countries.

• because the US and Great Britain did not want to fight over Oregon Country.

• and France gave the East Coast Canadian land to Great Britain.

• then the US paid them $15 million.

Which treaty ceded a large amount of territory to the United States following the Mexican War in 1848?

• The Mexican War Final Treaty

• The Mexican Cessation

• Treaty of Texas

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

When gold was discovered in California in 1848...

• Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and the Mormons were given 10 acres per person.

• people rushed to the area, hoping to make their fortunes.

• farmers also began searching for gold in Oklahoma.

• the first state university was then established offering courses in money management.