Westward Review

Why was Marbury v. Madison Important?

• Said congress has power to regulate interstate commerce

• Gave U.S. Congress power to declare laws unconstitutional

• Gave federal government supremacy over state goverment.

• Gave the U.S. Supreme Court the power to declare laws unconstitutional

Which of the following led the American colonists to claim taxation without representation & respond with violent protests?

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

The Hudson River School artists were influenced by the

• reform movements in the U.S.

• natural landscapes

• Settlers migrating west

• industrialization of cities

What did the U.S. get from the Oregon Territory Treaty?

• We expanded Westward towards the Pacific Ocean

• Land to build a transcontinental railroad

• Firmly established borders with Mexico

• Massive Amounts of Gold from the Gold Rush of 1849

This map shows the United States after which treaty/acquisition?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Oregon Treaty

• Gasden Purchase

What did the Louisiana Purchase do?

• Double the size of the United States

• Gave us Florida

• Gave us several modern day states including California

• Added Texas as a state

What did Texas Annexation do?

• Gave the U.S. access to the Pacific Ocean

• Gave us land to build a transcontinental railroad

• Increase tensions between the U.S. & Mexico

• Doubled the size of the United States

What treaty gave us the Mexican Cession?

• Gasden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Oregon Treaty

• Adams-Onis Treaty

What did the Gasden Purchase accomplish?

• Increased tensions between the U.S. & Mexico

• Added land to complete the transcontinental railroad

• Gave the U.S. access to the Pacific Ocean

• Doubled the size of the United States

Which of the following is a motivation for Manifest Destiny?

• These are hard times & it's our duty to serve & fight

• Everyone born in the United States as a slave is now freed

• We should possess the whole continent given to us by god

• Women need to help the country by using their sacred right to vote