AEF 2025 US LT Quiz #2

The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Due Process

• Manifest Destiny

• American Progress

• Mercantilism

Acquisition of a territory by the United States from France in 1803. Doubled the size of the U.S.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Adams Onis Treaty

To give up power of a territory

• Annex

• Secede

• Cede

• Produce

A 2000 mile trail that stretched from Missouri to Oregon, many pioneers traveled this trail to go west

• Mormon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• Oregon Trail

• California Trail

Occurred because of Manifest Destiny and the Annexation of Texas. the United States wins the war and pays Mexico $15 million for the Mexican Cession.

• U.S. - Mexican War

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

The large area of land that was given up by Mexico to the United States included Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Territory

The addition of Texas to the U.S. , it would eventually lead to the U.S. - Mexican War.

• Spanish Concession

• Annexation of Texas

• Secession of South Carolina

• Georgia removal

How did most people travel to the west?

• Boat

• Horseback

• Car

• Covered Wagon

What was the Alamo?

• The train that traveled through Texas

• A city in Texas

• A fort that was used by the Texan Americans to fight the Mexican Army

In 1830, before the annexation of Texas, Texas was a part of _________.

• Canada
• Mexico
• United States