Westward Expansion Review

What did Southerners dislike because it increased the cost of manufactured and imported goods?

• Tariffs

• Louisiana Purchase

• Telegraph

• Gold Rush

What gave territories rules for being added to the Union and allowed them to govern themselves? (hint: organized way to admit new states)

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Adams Onis Treaty

• Mexican Cession

• Northwest Ordinance

What increased tension between the United States and Mexico and eventually led to the U.S. Mexican War?

• Florida Cession

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Louisiana Purchase

What area did the United States and Britain argue over? It eventually settled the boundary dispute by giving the northern half to Britain and the Southern half to the United States.

• Adams Onis Treaty

• Oregon Country

• Texas Annexation

• Louisiana Purchase

What doubled the size of the United States in 1803?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

What land did we get for $15 million in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Oregon Country

What land acquisition completed the continental United States and it was purchased for building the transcontinental railroad?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Florida Cession

Why did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase even though the constitution did not say a president could buy land?

• it had rivers that could expand trade and commerce

• it would expand political boundaries

• it would make France less powerful

• He wanted to cause more debate about slavery

What was the belief that Americans should have all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

• Spoils System

• Sectionalism

• Patriotism

• Manifest Destiny

How did the United States get Florida?

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Louisiana Purchase

• Adams Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo