Westward Expansion Review

Front

What did Southerners dislike because it increased the cost of manufactured and imported goods?

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Tariffs

Front

What gave territories rules for being added to the Union and allowed them to govern themselves? (hint: organized way to admit new states)

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Northwest Ordinance

Front

What increased tension between the United States and Mexico and eventually led to the U.S. Mexican War? Options: Florida Cession, Mexican Cession, Texas Annexation, Louisiana Purchase

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Texas Annexation

Front

What area did the United States and Britain argue over? It eventually settled the boundary dispute by giving the northern half to Britain and the Southern half to the United States.

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Oregon Country

Front

What doubled the size of the United States in 1803?

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Louisiana Purchase

Front

What land did we get for $15 million in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

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Mexican Cession

Front

What land acquisition completed the continental United States and it was purchased for building the transcontinental railroad? Options: Louisiana Purchase, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, Florida Cession

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Gadsden Purchase

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Why did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase even though the constitution did not say a president could buy land?

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it had rivers that could expand trade and commerce

Front

What was the belief that Americans should have all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

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Manifest Destiny

Front

How did the United States get Florida?

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Adams Onis Treaty