Test Review: Expansion Unit (from Quizlet)

Established by 1783

• Mexican Cession

• Original United States

• Oregon Territory

• British Cession

Reason that so many rushed into California in the mid 1800s

• Cheap Farmland

• Copper

• Gold

• Silver

Armed conflict between a group of Americans and the Mexican Army (Americans lost)

• Vote

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Alamo

The view that America should expand its borders from coast to coast.

• Manifest Destiny

• Slavery

• Religious Freedom

• Mexican Cession

An expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark that began in 1804 to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Annexation

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Oregon Trail

What many Chinese immigrants suffered during the Gold Rush.

• Slavery

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Segregation

Battle cry of revenge for Texan independence from Mexico in 1836.

• Alamo Forever!

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Remember the Alamo!

The reason many settlers went to the Oregon country

• American indian crops

• Gold

• Cession

• Cheap farmland

Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million

• Mexican Cession

• Discrimination

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

• Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Slavery

• Cession