STAAR Review: Day 7 Westward Expansion

⭐Which of the following was a factor that led to the growth of the belief in Manifest Destiny?

• Population boom

• George Washington’s stated desire to acquire more land

• We desired more land to build more missions like Spain once did

• The U.S. disliked Mexico and wanted to take land from them

⭐One of the leading causes of the U.S.-Mexican War was -  

• Mexico invading New York City

• James K. Polk’s dislike of the President of Mexico

• the annexation of Texas and a border dispute

• the U.S. captured the Mexican ship, El Tenedor

The Transcontinental Railroad greatly impacted the U.S. by -

• making it easier for pioneers to travel to the west to settle land

• opening up trade with Canada

• providing economic opportunities for African Americans

• allowing the first woman to be a train conductor

What is the idea of Manifest Destiny?

• America is certain to become the most powerful country in the world

• America is destined to be comprised of 50 states

• American is to own land all the way to the Pacific Ocean

• Mexico is to one day join the United States

The excerpt provides evidence that in 1844 Democrats supported -

• federal financing of transportation systems in the West

• making Manifest Destiny an official federal policy

• social Darwinism as a justification for expansion

• prohibiting the expansion of slavery into new areas of the United States

Which of the following best completes the diagram above?

• slaveholding state

• bordered by the Pacific

• formerly part of Mexico

• dependent on heavy industry

Match the following

• Louisiana Purchase

• Provided the U.S. with land to expand the Transcontinental Railroad

• Gadsden Purchase

• Doubled the size of the U.S.; allowed for westward expansion

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War and established new borders between the U.S. and Mexico

• Manifest Destiny

• Belief the U.S. should own land from coast to coast; caused by population boom and desire to acquire resources on new land

This is a map of the United States.

Which location on the map was ceded to the United States by Mexico in the mid-1800s?

Select the correct answer.

Many Chinese immigrants came to the United States to -

• search for gold in Sutter’s Mill

• work on cotton plantations

• escape a country-wide famine

• create new religious communities

Match the following

• Oregon Territory

• Land sold by Spain in Adams-Onis Treaty

• Gold

• Annexation of Texas; border disagreement

• Reasons for U.S.-Mexican War

• Discovery at Sutter’s Mill, California in 1849

• Florida

• Land signed over by Great Britain; achieved goal of Manifest Destiny