VUS SOL 6

The belief that it was America's duty & right to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific was?

• White privilege

• The Mexican American War

• The Commercial Revolution

• Manifest Destiny

Indians were relocated to ______________ when the Europeans moved west

• Reservations

• Concentration camps

• Internment camps

• Deserts

What was bought from France in 1803 & doubled the size of the United States?

• The Mississippi River

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Mexico

• California

Who explored the Louisiana Territory with the help of Sacajawea?

• The Aztecs

• Democratic Republicans

• Lewis and Clark

• Hessians

What war gave America Oregon and Florida?

• War of 1812

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• Mexican American War

What document issued in 1823 prohibited future colonization of western hemisphere by Europe?

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Truman Doctrine

• Proclamation of 1763

• Monroe Doctrine

What intensified the westward movement of settlers and helped the economy in the times before the Civil War?

• All weather roads

• A high number of horses and cattle

• Railroads and canals

• The interstate system

Who invented the cotton gin that led to the spread of slavery in the deep south?

• James Hargreaves

• Oscar Wild

• Eli Whitney

• James Watt

What war gave America California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and New Mexico?

• War of 1812

• Spanish American War

• Mexican American War

• Civil War

What was it called when several tribes were relocated from the Atlantic coast to Oklahoma?

• Boston Massacre

• 3/5 Compromise

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Trail of Tears