WorksheetsManifest Destiny Extra Credit
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Florida Cession (a.k.a. Spanish Cession)
Texas Annexation
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession
Name
Texas Annexation
Mexican Cession
Louisiana Territory
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Adams-Onis Treaty
Oregon Treaty
Treaty of Paris, 1783
How/from whom did we acquire this territory?
from Mexico after U.S.-Mexican War
purchased from France for $15,000,000
split with the British along 49th parallel
annexed by an act of Congress
How/from whom did we acquire this territory?
from Mexico after U.S.-Mexican War
purchased from France for $15,000,000
split with the British along 49th parallel
ceded by Britain following Revolutionary War
What was one reason James k. Polk won the presidential election of 1844?
He was against removing American Indians from their native lands.
He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny.
He opposed the extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River
Which title best completes this list?
Economic Motives for Passing the Northwest Ordinance
Reasons for Issuing the Monroe Doctrine
Economic Motives for Manifest Destiny Policies
Reasons for the Gadsden Purchase
During the 1840's the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Manifest Destiny
The American System
States Rights
Which of the following occurred as a result of these events?
The president of Mexico refused to withdraw troops from Texas
Parts of southern Texas were returned to Mexico
The United States acquired several territories from Mexico
Mexico was forced to sell Florida to the United States
The United States acquired the Oregon Territory when -
a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land
Mexico sold the territory to the United States for $10 Million
the territory's settlers voted for annexation by the United States
Russia sold the land to the United States for $7.2 Million
Which of these characteristics also describes these two states?
Founded as work colonies for debtors
Former Slave States
Were havens for religious dissenters
Former Spanish colonies
Which statement describes the impact of this invention?
Allowed easy assembly of new devices
Made cotton cleaning more efficient
increased farm productivity
increased factory production
This territory was "bought" after Savage Jackson took it..... Because THUGLIFE
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Oregon
A major characteristic of industrialization in the United States prior to the Civil War was a
population shift to urban areas
decline in the cotton harvest
boom in oil and gas production
rapid system for manufacturing cars
