L17 Manifest Destiny

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Great Awakening

• Louisiana Purchase

The United States acquired land in all of these ways except

• through war

• through treaties.

• through colonization.

• through inheritance.

Before the early 1800s, which two countries claimed the Louisiana Territory?

• Russia and Mexico

• Great Britain and Spain

• France and Great Britain

• France and Spain

How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?

• It led to war.

• It doubled the nation's size.

• It limited trade opportunities.

• It led to the discovery of a water route across the country.

What was one reason why the United States wanted to acquire Florida?

• to increase population

• to end the raids on Georgia's farms by Native Americans

• to control the Mississippi River

• to provide a short route to Europe

Why did the United States buy the Gadsden Purchase in 1853?

• to gain a good railroad route to California

• for a land grant to increase the size of Arizona

• to put an end to illegal immigration to the United States

• to end a long border dispute with Mexico

What was Mexico's policy toward slavery in the 1830s?

• It was illegal.

• Farmers depended upon it.

• Mexico traded enslaved people for crops.

• It was a debated issue between Mexican states.

What country had a "joint occupation" of the Oregon territory with the United States?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Mexico

The war with Mexico from 1846-1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the US a huge region from Texas to California.

• Texas War for Independence

• Mexican-American War

• War of 1812

• World War II