Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion

The belief that the United States was destined to stretch all the way across the continent of North America

• Manifest Destiny

• Bill of Rights

• Gold Rush

Which area on the map was acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican War?

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory

“Mr. Manifest Destiny”; added more territory to the United States than any other President. 

• Jefferson

• Polk

American Progress" was a piece of art created by John Gast with the main idea of...

• the original 13 colonies

• President Polk

• Manifest Destiny

• Native American reservations

​ (a)   the belief that the United States had

the God-given right to control all of the land from the Atlantic

Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• epidemic

• entrepreneur

• Manifest Destiny

• squatter

​ (a)   is the belief that America should own land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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• Immigrants

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Manifest Destiny

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Settlers

• Pacific Ocean

In the mid-1800's, a powerful idea captured the imagination of Americans. What was the idea that the United States had a God-given right to expand west to the Pacific Ocean? (a)  

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• the Great Migration

• the Enlightenment

​ (a)   is the belief that the United States was meant to control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

• Manifest Destiny

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Jackson Action

American settlers in the 1800s held the belief of (a)   and felt they were entitled to conquer and control North America.

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Moral Diplomacy

Occupying all of North America was the goal of ​ (a)  

• Manifest Destiny.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Louisiana Purchase.

• Andrew Jackson.