US 2023 Review of Western Expansion

Identify the area marked C on the map.

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annexation of independent republic

Mexican Cession

Gadsden Purchage

Louisiana Territory

Match the following treaty, purchase, or reason for each territory.

• Purchased from France for 15 million

• Louisiana Purchase

• After Texas won their independence from Mexico it became a republic and then was annexed to the US

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• The former 13 colonies became the first 13 states

• Oregon Territory

• Purchased from Spain for 5 million dollars -

  Adams- Onis Treaty

• Florida

• Acquired in the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain

• Texas

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Document that determined that by right of possession the US could claim all the land in the continental US

• The belief that some things are written in the stars that will happen

• The belief that the US should own all the land from coast to coast because it was God's plan

• The document that declared the United States as the supreme power in the Western Hemisphere

Who was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?

• President George Washington

• President James Madison

• President John Adams

• President Thomas Jefferson

Match the following treaty, purchase, or acquisition of US land.

• Purchased from Mexico after the American -Mexican War for 15 million plus 3.25 million for claims

• Texas

• Purchased from Mexico for 10 million

• Alaska

• When it became a sovereign nation the US annexed as a slave state in 1845

• Gadsden Purchase

• US annexed an independent republic- became a state in 1959

• Hawaiian Islands

• Purchased from Russia for 7.2 million became a state in 1959

• Mexican Cession