3.5 A Changing Nation

The annexation of Texas was opposed by many Northerners because_______.

• Texas allowed slavery

• Spain still claimed Texas

• Texas was too large to be a state

• The purchase price was too much

What territory did the United States gain as a result of the Mexican-American War?

• Texas

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Country

What happened when people rushed to California to search for gold?

• The population in California decreased.

• California joined the Union as a slave state.

• Mexico regretted giving the territory to the US.

• California's population increased and businesses developed to service gold miners.

Florida could not become a state until which of the following happened?

• A free state joined the Union.

• A slave state joined the Union.

• It agreed to end slavery.

• Texas joined the Union.

This treaty ceded Florida to the United States from Spain.

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Ghent

• Armistice Agreement

Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Mexico

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Which statement below accurately describes the impact of Westward Expansion on the Native Americans?

• The Native Americans' wealth increased through the sale of Native lands

• Reduction of Native populations through disease and involuntary relocation

• Increase of their food supply and essential resources

• Increased resentment towards forced assimilation into American culture

What was the main goal of “Manifest Destiny”?

• To relocate Native American tribes to reservations west of the Mississippi River

• To remove all European colonies form the Western Hemisphere

• To create a profitable partnership with Mexico

• To expand the United States until it stretched from coast to coast

The following map shows a land purchase made by the United States. What was the significance of the Gadsden Purchase?

• It started another costly conflict with Mexico.

• It doubled the size of the continental United States.

• It provided more farmland to meet the demand for cotton.

• It moved the Mexico-America border to where it is today.

The great discovery that encouraged many to migrate to California was ____.

• gold

• silver

• ranchos

• boomtowns