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WorksheetsUnit 3 (Acquisitions & Expansion)
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
The edge between a settled area of a country and the wilderness.
Pioneer area
Frontier
Great Beyond
Manifest Destiny
War that began because the British impressed American sailors and armed Native Americans.
War of 1812
American Revolution
Mexican War
Texas Revolution
Group of people negatively affected by westward expansion. They were forced to move and assimilate.
Mexican Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
Chinese Americans
Tensions over the annexation of Texas led to this conflict. Result was huge territorial gains for the United States.
Texas Revolution
War of 1812
Civil War
Mexican War
Agreement in which Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
Adams-Onics Treaty
Jay's Treaty
Treaty of Paris 1783
Louisiana Purchase
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.
Intolerable Acts
Alien and Sedition Acts
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification Acts
Tax on imports designed to eliminate the price advantage of foreign goods and make US products more appealing.
Excise Tax
Protective Tariff
Sales Tax
Consumer Tax
Idea that individuals should take care of themselves without help from others.
Assimilation
Nationalism
Franchise
Rugged Individualism
Americans who moved West.
Frontiers
Explorers
Pioneers
Conquistadors
Small section of land purchased in 1853 that completes the present United States-Mexico boundary.
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Territory
Idea that the United States had the God-given right to own all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian Democracy
Manifest Destiny
Franchise
President Jackson's displacement of Native Americans led to this forced migration of Cherokee peoples in which thousands died.
Manifest Destiny
Trail of Tears
Assimilation movement
Indian Removal Act
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.
Mexican War
French and Indian War
Spanish-American War
Texas Revolution
Establishing the current United States boundary in the northwest, Great Britain and the United States agreed to divide this area at the 49th parallel.
Oregon Territory
Gadsden Purchase
Texas
Northwest Territory
Geographic feature that made up the western boundary of the original United States.
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Mississippi River
Appalachian Mountains
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.
Mexican Cession
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Purchase of Alaska
Devotion to the interests and culture of one's country.
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Statesism
Assimilation
The idea that a State can refuse to recognize acts of Congress it considers unconstitutional.
Judicial Review
Franchise
Nullification
Sectionalism
Process by which a person or persons acquire the characteristics of a group.
Assimilation
Rugged Individualism
Franchise
Nationalism
This is the right to vote.
Disenfranchisement
Popular Sovereignty
Franchise
Elastic Clause
Placing the interests of one's own region over the interests of the nation.
Nationalism
Sectionalism
States' Rights
Franchise
Policy of US opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Mayflower Compact
Manifest Destiny
Jacksonian Democracy
Which of the following is NOT an effect of westward expansion?
Slavery expanded
Availability of cheap land
Slavery decreased
Nationalism Increased
Man who portrayed himself as a common man and won the 1828 presidential election.
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Reason as to why Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States
The US did not want to offend the Mexican government.
Texas would have been admitted as a slave state.
Texas did not want to be annexed by the US.
The US was afraid of starting a war with Mexico.
Which of the following was the name of the era in which about one million more white men were allowed to vote?
Manifest Destiny
Jacksonian Democracy
Sectionalism
Westward Expansion
This idea would become a symbol of the United States
Manifest Destiny
Jacksonian Democracy
Loose Interpretation
Rugged Individualism
