West Expansion 1

What great achievement is Thomas Jefferson thinking about?

• The annexation of Canada

• The purchase of land for the nation’s capital

• The California Purchase

• The Louisiana Purchase

Which men explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon territory from

the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean?

• Jo Anderson

• Meriwether Lewis

• Cyrus McCormick

• William Clark

The United States divided the Oregon Territory with ⎯

• France

• Great Britian

• Spain

• Russia

The 1821 headline is describing the addition of ⎯

• Texas

• California

• Louisiana

• Florida

Texas was added as a territory after it became ⎯

• an independent republic

• an annex to the United States

• a state

• a democracy

What event resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part

of the United States?

• Conflict with Great Britain

• Clashes with France

• War with Mexico

• Treaties with Canada

Which forms of transportation contributed to westward movement

between 1801 and 1861?

• canals

• subways

• airplanes

• steamboat

Number 4 on the map identifies the location of the ⎯

• Chesapeake Canal

• Erie Canal

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

The settlers are expressing the idea of —

• states’ rights

• Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny

• popular sovereignty

The diagram explains that people moved west between 1801 and 1861

because of ⎯

• expensive land available west of the Mississippi River

• civil war in the United States

• population growth in the western states

• economic opportunities