STAAR Day 4- Westward Expansion, Reform

Which of the following are PULL factors for Manifest Destiny? Select two (2).

• Overcrowded cities

• Economic depressions

• Religious persecution

• Inexpensive farmland

• Fresh start

Match the land acquisition with the correct year.

• 1819

• Louisiana Purchase

• 1848

• Florida

• 1803

• Texas

• 1853

• Gadsden Purchase

• 1845

• Mexican Cession

Many ​ (a)   were concerned about adding Texas because it would become a ​ (b)   state.

• Northerners
• slave
• Westerners
• Southerners
• free
• independent

Which land piece, acquired in 1803, gave America control over the Mississippi River and doubled the size of the US?

Label map.

e

f

g

h

d

c

b

a

Louisiana Purchase

Original 13 States

Treaty of Paris

Florida

Gadsden Purchase

Texas

Oregon

Mexican Cession

What caused the population boom in San Francisco in 1849?

• Crop failures

• Free land

• Expansion of the slavery system

• Discovery of gold

• Political freedom

What were two (2) effects of the Second Great Awakening?

• Inspired Americans to become better people

• People joined reform movments

• Mormons were forced to leave for Utah

• Native Americans were kicked off their homelands

• Irish immigrants came to America

Match the individual to their reform movement.

• Transcendentalist

• Dorothea Dix

• Prison/Disabled Reform

• Henry David Thoreau

• Abolitionist Movement

• Frederick Douglass

• Women's Rights

• Horace Mann

• Education

• Susan B. Anthony

Which image below is associated with the Hudson River School?

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Harriet Tubman helped African slaves escape on the ​ (a)   . She was a part of the ​ (b)   movement.

• Underground Railroad
• Abolitionist
• Freedom Train
• Civil Rights
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Segregation