Westward Expansion

The United States acquired (gained) land in all of these ways EXCEPT through

• War

• Treaties

• Settlement

• Inheritance

What was one reason the United States wanted to acquire (buy) Florida?

• To increase the population

• To end raids on Georgia farms by Seminoles

• To control the Mississippi

• To provide a short route to Europe

Which of these was the biggest motivation for settlers to travel to Oregon Country?

• Gold deposits

• Fertile farmland

• Religious freedom

• Canadian citizenship

What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• To map out the new territory acquired by the U.S.

• To establish friendly relations with the native people

• To find a water route to the Pacific Ocean

• All of the above

What was the biggest cause of the Mexican-American War?

• The election of James Polk

• The Gadsden Purchase

• The U.S. annexation of Texas

• The U.S. invasion of California

Which of the following is NOT an example of a negative consequence of the California Gold Rush?

• Most people were not willing to leave the east and few came to California looking for gold

• Native people were pushed off their land and their population dramatically decresed

• Chinese immigrants faced discrimination in the gold mines

• African Americnas did not receive the same civil rights as citizens

Why did the U.S. buy the Gadsden Purchase in 1854?

• To end the Mexican-American War

• To avoid war with Mexico

• To build a railroad to California

• To spread slavery west

Why did some northerners oppose the annexation (adding) of Texas?

• Texas allowed slavery

• Spain had a claim to Texas

• Texas was too large to be a state

• Spain demanded too high a price for Texas

Which land acquisition (adding territory) completed the United States’s Manifest Destiny?

• The Oregon Territory

• The Texas Annexation

• The Gadsden Purchase

• The Mexican Cession

Manifest Destiny was the belief that...

• It was America's "destiny" to spread east

• It was America's "destiny" to remove the native people from their land

• It was America's "destiny" to go to war with Mexico

• It was America's "destiny" to spread west