Westward Expansion and Immigration

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

Territory acquired by the U.S. that started as a border dispute with Mexico and turned into a war. 

• Gadsden Purchase
• Oregon Treaty
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexican Cession

The primary goal of manifest destiny was ...

• end slavery in the new territories
• removal of European influence from South America
• expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean
• secession of southern states from the nation

In 1845 Congress made this independent territory a part of the United States?

• Texas
• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Teritory
• Florida

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

The territory the U.S. acquired in 1846 that settled a boundary dispute at the 49th parallel with Britain identified in the picture? 

• Florida Purchase
• Thirteen Colonies
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon County

All of the following are roots of Manifest Destiny, except ...

• Economic opportunity
• Population Growth
• Mormons
• Mercantilism

This territory was purchased to complete the southern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Florida
• Mexican Cession
• Gadsden Purchase
• Louisiana Purchase

Early pioneers traveled by ox-wagon 2000 miles over the Rocky Mountains to reach this territory.

• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Territory
• Mexican Cession
• Florida

How did the U.S. acquire Oregon? 

• treaty with the British
• war with England
• purchased from the British
• war with Mexico

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