Day 7 STAAR® Blitz: Westward Expansion Assignment

Land signed over by Great Britain; achieved goal of Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Territory
• Florida
• Gold
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession

Annexation of Texas; border disagreement

• Reasons for U.S.-Mexican War
• Florida
• Gold
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession

Discovery at Sutter’s Mill, California in 1849

• Gold
• Florida
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession
• Nativism

Land sold by Spain in Adams-Onis Treaty

• Florida
• Gold
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession
• Nativism

Belief that immigrants take away jobs from Americans

• Nativism
• Florida
• Gold
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession

Land gained after the U.S.-Mexican War

• Mexican Cession
• Florida
• Gold
• Louisiana Purchase
• Nativism

Opened up land for westward expansion

• Louisiana Purchase
• Florida
• Gold
• Mexican Cession
• Nativism

Match the following

Groups:

(a) Irish

,

(b) Chinese

,

(c) Both

• Future economic prosperity

• Widespread famine due to the loss of a staple crop

• Work in California goldfields

This is a map of the United States. Which location on the map was purchased to complete construction of a transcontinental railroad? Select the correct answer.

What was Manifest Destiny?