Unit 8 Test Review

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Believing the US should expand from Atlantic to Pacific

• Believing the US should take all land owned by Great Britain

• Believing the US should take all of the land owned by France and Spain

• Believing in the destiny of owning land

What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

• Paris

• Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Oregon

• Cancun

What is a reason that people decided to move west?

• They were threatened

• Wanted to be friendly with Native Americans

• More land to farm

• To find treasure

What new transportation used coal to create steam to power boat engines?

• Trains

• Canals

• Clipperships

• Steamboats

What was the Erie Canal's major effect on trade?

• Made it easier for people to come to Buffalo

• Wildlife improved around the canal

• Farmland developed in Western NY

• Dropped shipping cost by 90%

What new technology was a way for people to communicate quickly from large distances? It used dots and dashes.

• Telegraph

• Telephone

• Railroad

• Texting

What was an impact of the telegraph?

• Used to cure headaches because of the sound

• Dropped the price of shipping 90%

• Able to travel goods faster

• People could communicate very quickly from far distances

What does "territory" mean?

• Someone's land that they own

• Capital of a country

• An area under control of a government

• A military fort

What does "Cede" mean?

• The government gives away money

• To stop

• Another word for seeds

• To give up power or land

How did the United States add on Texas?

• They blockaded it

• They annexed it

• They overrode it

• It was ceded