Manifest Destiny Unit Review

Through which agreement did the U.S. acquire MOST of the land in the American Southwest?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Louisiana Purchase

• Adams-Onis Treaty

Why was Texas originally denied admission into the United States?

• Northerners did not want to add Texas as a slave state.

• They did not have a large enough population to qualify as a state.

• They had not written a state constitution.

• The United States worried that their admission would lead to a fight with France.

The belief in Manifest Destiny meant that

• Native Americans had an equal claim to lands of the West.

• the United States should expand west to the Pacific.

• slavery should be allowed in the West.

• no more European colonies would be allowed in the Americas.

In 1830, Mexico forbade any more Americans from moving into Texas because

• too many Americans were Catholic.

• American settlers opposed slavery.

• American settlers were killing off the Native Americans.

• Americans did not obey the Mexican laws regarding slavery and becoming Catholic.

Which of these did NOT attract Americans to the Oregon Country?

• fur trapping

• hot, dry climate

• fertile land

• missionary work

Manifest Destiny led to conflict between

• plantation owners and slaves.

• Mexicans and Native Americans.

• the United States and Spain.

• the United States and Mexico.

In order to convince Congress to annex Texas, Sam Houston

• let Americans think that Texas might become an ally of Britain.

• convinced settlers to bring more slaves into Texas.

• went on a nationwide speaking tour on behalf of annexation.

• let Americans think that Texas would outlaw slavery.

Why was the United States willing to compromise with Britain, but not Mexico, in their quest for Manifest Destiny?

• The U.S. army was not prepared to fight in the forests of the Oregon Territory. 

• Britain was a more powerful nation and more of a threat to the United States.

• Mexicans had much stronger feelings about abolition than the British did.

• The U.S. knew that if they declared war against Britain, France would side with the British.

Why did the United States make the Gadsden Purchase?

• It is an easier route for the railroad companies to build the rail lines from the east to the west.

• The United States wanted the land because of the abundant water found there.

• The purchase would give the Mormons an area in which to live without religious persecution.

• The land was to be given to Native Americans to start a reservation.

What happened to most of the Native Americans in California after gold was discovered?

• Land was given to them in northern California in exchange for their land, and they moved peacefully.

• Many were driven off their land and later died of starvation or disease.

• They became wealthy selling their lands to the gold miners.

• They worked the gold fields and most became wealthy.