Unit 7 Study Guide

Name what #7 on the U.S. map represents

• British Cession

• The Mexican Cession of 1848

• Texas Annexation of 1845

• Oregon Country

What addition to the U.S. made the size double?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Adams-Onís Treaty

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Paris

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

• Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Awakening

• Louisiana Purchase

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains

• crossing rivers

• the Great Plains

• all of them-

  *mountains

  *crossing rivers

  *the great plains

This treaty established peace with Mexico and and ended the Mexican-American war

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Treaty of Washington

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk was the 11th president and highly supported __________ which won him the presidency of 1844.

• extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River.

• popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.

• Removal of Native Americans from their native lands

• Manifest Destiny

Why was there opposition to Texas being added to the United States?

• belief that the Texas Revolution was illegal

• fear of fighting a was so far away

• fear of increasing the powers of the legislative branch

• since Texas would’ve been a slave state, it meant that there’d then be more slave states than free states

How did the outcome of the U.S.-Mexican War influence the territorial expansion of the

United States?

• It gave the United State control of the entire basin of the Mississippi River.

• The United States gained the northern half of Mexico as part of the peace treaty

• Spain sold Florida to the United States in order to avoid a war defending it.

• Northern Mexican states voted to be annexed by the United States.

The area that is unshaded was purchased from France for $15 million dollars and stretches north to south from the present-day state of Minnesota all the way down south to the Gulf of Mexico

• The Mexican-American War

• Mexican Cession

• The Louisiana purchase

• The Florida Acquisition

Which set of words BEST completes the following sentence?

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress to outline a government for the

Northwest Territory, the land north of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River. It

also provided for ___________ and prohibited ___________ in the territory.

• religious tolerance, state churches

• women's suffrage, discrimination

• farmers' rights, tariffs

• public education, slavery