Western Expansion

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How did the United States obtain territory 2? Options: Treaty with England after the American Revolution 1783, Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France 1803, Annexation of Texas 1845, Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican War.

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Treaty with England after the American Revolution 1783

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How did the United States obtain territory 7? Options: Treaty with England after the American Revolution 1783, Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France 1803, Annexation of Texas 1845, Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican War.

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Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican War.

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How did the United States obtain territory 3? Options: Treaty with England after the American Revolution 1783, Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France 1803, Annexation of Texas 1845, Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican War.

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Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France 1803

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How did the United States obtain territory 5? Options: Treaty with England after the American Revolution 1783, Thomas Jefferson purchased it from France 1803, Annexation of Texas 1845, Mexico surrenders land to the United States at the end of the Mexican War.

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Annexation of Texas 1845

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Which term did Americans use in the 1840s to describe the idea that the United States should possess the entire continent?

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Manifest Destiny

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The United States purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803 was geographically important because it

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provided access to the Mississippi River and port of New Orleans

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What act encouraged Westward settlement of the Great Plains?

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Homestead Act

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What is the most important impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?

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It provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.

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The Trail of Tears refers to

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the removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

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What act is associated with the assimilation of Native Americans to American culture?

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Dawes Act