2023 (M) Manifest Destiny: How America Justified Westward Expansion

In what year did the U.S. buy the Louisiana Purchase?

• 1801

• 1802

• 1803

What state gained statehood in 1845? 

• Texas

• California

• Florida

What was a term that represented the idea that it was fate for the U.S. to expand and settle all lands of the American West?

• Will of the People

• Manifest Destiny

• Expansion Theory

What war happened between 1846 and 1848?

• The Civil War

• The Mexican American War

What Treaty ended the war with Mexico?

• Mexico City Accords

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Treaty of Cozumel

According to this video, what caused the American Civil War?

• Slavery

• Westward Expansion

• The debate over if the new territories should be slave states or free states