Westward Expansion 1

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

• Great Britain recognized the U.S. as an independent country.

• Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.

• The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.

• British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.

Which numbered area was acquired in through the Treaty of Paris 1783?

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According to the Northwest Ordinance, which condition did a U.S. territory have to meet in order to apply for statehood?

• Have a population of sixty thousand free settlers

• Hold a vote on whether to become a free or slave territory

• Establish one public school per district

• Have a territorial governor appointed by the president

Which document outlined the process for admitting a new state into the Union?

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Ghent

• Northwest Ordinance

• Louisiana Purchase Territory

How did the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance affect U.S. expansion?

• By funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions

• By establishing a process for territories to govern themselves

• By promoting the growth of southern plantation economies

• By creating a national bank to loan money to land investors

Why did President Thomas Jefferson approve the negotiations that led to the Louisiana Purchase?

• He wanted to settle boundary disputes with Great Britain.

• He wanted to take control of the Mississippi River.

• He wanted to obtain land to limit Russian colonization.

• He wanted to take control of the Appalachian Mountains.

Which territory granted the U.S. with the geographical feature marked as 1 on the map?

• Treaty of Paris

• Adam-Onis Treaty

• Louisiana Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

During the 1840s the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Manifest Destiny

• The American System

• States' Rights

Occupying all of North America was the goal of ​ (a)  

• Manifest Destiny.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• Louisiana Purchase.
• Andrew Jackson.

Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

• "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free..."

• "And that claim is by the right...to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us..."