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Unit 3 (Acquisitions & Expansion)

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The edge between a settled area of a country and the wilderness.

a)

Pioneer area

b)

Frontier

c)

Great Beyond

d)

Manifest Destiny

2.

War that began because the British impressed American sailors and armed Native Americans.

a)

War of 1812

b)

American Revolution

c)

Mexican War

d)

Texas Revolution

3.

Group of people negatively affected by westward expansion. They were forced to move and assimilate.

a)

Mexican Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Chinese Americans

4.

Tensions over the annexation of Texas led to this conflict. Result was huge territorial gains for the United States.

a)

Texas Revolution

b)

War of 1812

c)

Civil War

d)

Mexican War

5.

Agreement in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

a)

Adams-Onics Treaty

b)

Jay's Treaty

c)

Treaty of Paris 1783

d)

Louisiana Purchase

6.

Southerners felt this helped the North at the expense of the South. South Carolina tried to nullify the law and President Jackson threatened to put the state under military control.

a)

Intolerable Acts

b)

Alien and Sedition Acts

c)

Tariff of Abominations

d)

Nullification Acts

7.

Tax on imports designed to eliminate the price advantage of foreign goods and make US products more appealing.

a)

Excise Tax

b)

Protective Tariff

c)

Sales Tax

d)

Consumer Tax

8.

Idea that individuals should take care of themselves without help from others.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nationalism

c)

Franchise

d)

Rugged Individualism

9.

Americans who moved West.

a)

Frontiers

b)

Explorers

c)

Pioneers

d)

Conquistadors

10.

Small section of land purchased in 1853 that completes the present United States-Mexico boundary.

a)

Gadsden Purchase

b)

Mexican Cession

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Oregon Territory

11.

Idea that the United States had the God-given right to own all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Jacksonian Democracy

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Franchise

12.

President Jackson's displacement of Native Americans led to this forced migration of Cherokee peoples in which thousands died.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Assimilation movement

d)

Indian Removal Act

13.

Conflict that took place when Mexico insisted that Americans free their slaves. The area would gain its independence but not become part of the US for 10 years.

a)

Mexican War

b)

French and Indian War

c)

Spanish-American War

d)

Texas Revolution

14.

Establishing the current United States boundary in the northwest, Great Britain and the United States agreed to divide this area at the 49th parallel.

a)

Oregon Territory

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Texas

d)

Northwest Territory

15.

Geographic feature that made up the western boundary of the original United States.

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Mississippi River

d)

Appalachian Mountains

16.

Thomas Jefferson went against his belief in a strict interpretation of the Constitution when he made this land acquisition that doubled the size of the United States.

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Gadsden Purchase

d)

Purchase of Alaska

17.

Devotion to the interests and culture of one's country.

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Nationalism

c)

Statesism

d)

Assimilation

18.

The idea that a State can refuse to recognize acts of Congress it considers unconstitutional.

a)

Judicial Review

b)

Franchise

c)

Nullification

d)

Sectionalism

19.

Process by which a person or persons acquire the characteristics of a group.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Rugged Individualism

c)

Franchise

d)

Nationalism

20.

This is the right to vote.

a)

Disenfranchisement

b)

Popular Sovereignty

c)

Franchise

d)

Elastic Clause

21.

Placing the interests of one's own region over the interests of the nation.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Sectionalism

c)

States' Rights

d)

Franchise

22.

Policy of US opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Jacksonian Democracy

23.

Which of the following is NOT an effect of westward expansion?

a)

Slavery expanded

b)

Availability of cheap land

c)

Slavery decreased

d)

Nationalism Increased

24.

Man who portrayed himself as a common man and won the 1828 presidential election.

a)

John C. Calhoun

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Alexander Hamilton

25.

Reason as to why Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States

a)

The US did not want to offend the Mexican government.

b)

Texas would have been admitted as a slave state.

c)

Texas did not want to be annexed by the US.

d)

The US was afraid of starting a war with Mexico.

26.

Which of the following was the name of the era in which about one million more white men were allowed to vote?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Jacksonian Democracy

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Westward Expansion

27.

This idea would become a symbol of the United States

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Jacksonian Democracy

c)

Loose Interpretation

d)

Rugged Individualism