Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk’s campaign slogan in 1844 was

• Fifty- Five Forty or Fight

• Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

• Forty-Five Forty or Fight

• Forty-Forty Five or Fight

How Texas became part of the United States

• Secession

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Annexation

• 
  Manifest Destiny

Use the information in the box and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.

 

• Manifest Destiny

• The plantation system

• The temperance movement

• The Monroe Doctrine

Which group of people settled in Utah in order to escape religious persecution?

• Jews

• Catholics

• Mormons

• Puritans

How is the spread of new technologies out west represented in the picture?

• the bridge and star

• the prairie schooner and book

• the trains and telegraph lines

• the miners and the Native Americans

Which philosophy, belief, meant that the United States was supposed to extend it boundaries from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean? 

• Joint Occupation

• Annexation

• Nationalism

• Manifest Destiny

What was the effect of the discovery of gold in California in 1849?

• Several hundred people traveled north.

• America became a divided country.

• Native Americans were forced east.

• Many pursued dreams of becoming wealthy by traveling west in search of gold and silver.

What did President James K. Polk use as grounds for declaring war against Mexico?

• annexation of Texas by Mexico

• declaration of the border by Mexico

• a Mexican attack on American forces

• Mexico's nonpayment of debts

What was the outcome of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Spain regained control of Mexico.

• Canada was granted the Mexican Cession.

• The United States gained Oregon and Florida.

• The Mexican Cession was acquired by the United States.

EXAMINE the map closely. Identify four states that were formed from the Mexican Cession.

• Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona

• Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming

• Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico

• San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Denver