American History Quiz

Choose the correct term to complete the sentence: Mexico [blank], or gave up, territory to the United States.

• acquisition

• ceded

• expedition

• reservation

Choose the correct term to complete the sentence: An area set aside for American Indians to live on is called a(n) [blank].

• acquisition

• boundary

• expedition

• reservation

Choose the correct term to complete the sentence: Two places, like countries, are separated by a geographic line called a(n) [blank].

• acquisition

• boundary

• expedition

• reservation

Choose the correct term to complete the sentence: The Louisiana Purchase was the first land [blank] for the United States.

• acquisition

• boundary

• cede

• reservation

Choose the correct term to complete the sentence: A group of people sent to explore places unknown to them is called a(n) [blank].

• acquisition

• boundary

• cede

• expedition

Why did the United States want new acquisitions in the West?

• to have closer ties with Europe

• to protect the natural environment

• to study American Indian cultures

• to give people from the United States more land to farm and live on

Manifest destiny was the belief that the United States should

• expand to the Pacific Ocean.

• honor claims by other countries.

• give all citizens the right to vote.

• treat native peoples with respect.

Jefferson agreed to buy French land to the west so that

• people who had escaped slavery could not hide there.

• American Indians would have a place to live.

• American goods could move through New Orleans.

• the United States would have an ally against Great Britain.

The United States got Florida from

• France.

• Great Britain.

• Mexico.

• Spain.

Many Americans in Texas wanted freedom from Mexico so they could

• get free land.

• continue to enslave people.

• build homes at the Alamo.

• help the American Indians.