Westward Expansion Flashcard

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Which of the following best represents the ideas associated with the visual? Options: The spread of slavery should be outlawed north of Texas, The U.S. government felt Native Americans could live in peace with the White population, Americans believed it was their right to expand and possess the continent from ocean to ocean, A majority of Americans wanted to make peace and avoid the conflict of the Civil War

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Americans believed it was their right to expand and possess the continent from ocean to ocean

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What did Manifest Destiny mean to 19th-century Americans?

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the belief that God had given the United States the right to all of North America

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During the 1840's the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following? Options: The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Manifest Destiny, The American System, States' Rights

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Manifest Destiny

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Which 1854 event resulted in about 30,000 square miles being added to the territory of New Mexico? Options: Mexican Cession, Texas Annexation, the Gadsden Purchase, the Louisiana Purchase

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the Gadsden Purchase

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A man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, especially a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early west.

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Mountain Man

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Which area in America was gold found in that gave people all over the world "gold fever" in 1848?

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California

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A prospector/miner in the California gold rush of 1849

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Forty-niners

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_________ was acquired through a treaty with Great Britain.

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Oregon Territory

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These two topics were discussed during the __________ of Texas.

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annexation

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Which religious group would have used Trail I? Options: Mormons, Irish Catholics, Christians, Jews

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Mormons