Why was the Mexican Cession a significant event?
Westward Expansion STAAR REVIEW

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Monique Miller
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
It united different cultural groups living in western areas.
It intensified the debate over the expansion of slavery.
It created a temporary southern border.
It led to the development of canal systems to move goods.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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The differences between these two maps resulted from the —
Missouri Compromise
Treaty of Ghent
Louisiana Purchase
Adams-Onís Treaty
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?
These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. . . .
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free. . . .
And that claim is by the right . . . to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us. . . .
That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which numbered area did the United States acquire in 1846 after negotiations with Great Britain?
A
B
C
D
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was one reason James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844?
He was against removing American Indians from their native lands.
He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny.
He opposed the extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
During the 1840s the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Manifest Destiny
The American System
States’ Rights
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The United States acquired the Oregon Territory when —
a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land
Mexico sold the territory to the United States for $10 million
the territory’s settlers voted for annexation by the United States
Russia sold the land to the United States for $7.2 million
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