8TH GRADE SS BLITZ WARM-UP DAY 7

Matching - Select the best answer.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Provided the US with land to expand the Transcontinental Railroad

• Louisiana Purchase

• Doubled the size of the US; allowed for westward expansion

• Gadsden Purchase

• Belief the US should own land from coast to coast; caused by population boom and desire to acquire resources on new land

• Manifest Destiny

• Officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War and established new borders between the U.S. and Mexico

Which location on the map was ceded to the United States by Mexico in the mid-1800s? Select the correct answer.

• A. A

• B. B

• C. C

• D. D

• E. E

Many Chinese immigrants came to the United States to

• search for gold in Sutter’s Mill

• work on cotton plantations

• escape a country-wide famine

• create new religious communities

Which of the following best completed the diagram above?

• Slaveholding state

• Bordered by the Pacific

• Formerly part of Mexico

• Dependent on heavy industry

This excerpt provides evidence that in 1844 Democrats supported

• A. federal financing of transportation systems in the West

• B. making Manifest Destiny an official federal policy

• C. social Darwinism as a justification for expansion

• D. prohibiting the expansion of slavery into new areas of the United States