Growth & Conflict

Western expansion gave Americans many exciting new ways to make their lives better.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In the 1940s, the United States and Britain argued over the border of the Oregon Country.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Congress created the Oregon Territory in 1848.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The United States did not care for the borders with Mexico.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In 1853, James Gadsden was the U.S. minister to Mexico.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Newspaper editor _____________said, “People of the United States! Your rulers are precipitating you into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity!”

• James K. Polk

• Horace Greeley

• Martin Van Buren

• Andrew Jackson

President _____________said, “As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon . . . [to protect] the interests of our country.”

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Horace Greeley

• James K. Polk

After the Mexican-American War, most of the ____________ who stayed in new U.S. territory became American citizens.

• 80,000 Mexicans

• 80,000 Texans

• 80,000 Indians

• 80,000 Californians

(a)   also set the border between the United States and Mexico.

Mexico gave the U.S. a large area known as the (a)   .