Westward Expansion Quiz

Manifest Destiny led to conflict between

• plantation owners and slaves

• Mexicans and Native Americans

• the United States and Spain

• the United States and Mexico

The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803 because we wanted to control New Orleans.

• control New Orleans

• stop the problems between the settlers and Native Americans

• stop the border dispute between the United States and Canada

• improve political relations with Mexico

Why did the United States issue the Monroe Doctrine?

• It would stop Canada from taking Michigan's Upper Peninsula

• It would keep European nations out of the Americas

• The United States would be able to sell the Louisiana Territory to France

• President Monroe would now only be allowed to serve two terms

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

"Gonzales was the Lexington of our struggle. The same cry for liberty, which from the blood of the slain at Lexington and Bunker Hill rose to Heaven and penetrated every corner of this land, flew with electric rapidity (great speed) after the battles of Gonzales and San Antonio." In these lines, a Texan tried to convince the United States to

• agree to divide Oregon at the 49 degrees latitude

• support Mexican rule of California

• support the Texan struggle for independence

• abolish slavery in Texas

What was the most significant outcome of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• discovered the Great Salt Lake

• established a system of forts throughout the West

• conquered the Spanish living in the West

• discovered a route to the Pacific Ocean

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

Which statement was NOT a result of the War of 1812?

• A century of self-reliance (isolationism) started for the United States

• The Democratic-Republican Party disappeared

• The British recognized the United States boundaries and stayed out of the Northwest Territory

• European countries now viewed the United States as a new powerful nation

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 statements is accurate regarding the Transcontinental/Adams-Onis Treaty?

• It eliminated Spain's control of land in the eastern half of the United States

• We received Louisiana Territory from France

• We remained neutral and stayed out of European affairs

• It stopped Native Americans from attacking settlers moving west through the Northwest Territory