Unit 2 Quiz 1 Vocabulary Review

The U.S. thought it was our ____________ or obvious fate to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans.

• Genocide

• Native Dispossession

• Annex

• Manifest Destiny

In 1803, President Jefferson purchased the _________________ which doubled the size of the US and gave us free travel on the Mississippi River.

• Louisiana Territory

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Country

What vocabulary terms is best displayed by the painting shown here.

• Indian Removal Act

• Annex

• Cede

• Manifest Destiny

What vocabulary term is shown in the painting shown here.

• Indian Removal Act

• Annex

• Cede

• Manifest Destiny

What do we call the forced migration of the Cherokee from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)?

• Gadsden Purchase

• Corps of Discovery

• Trail of Tears

• Texas Annexation

What method did the United States government use to reduce the population of the Native Americans to make room for white settlers?

• Manifest Destiny

• Genocide

• Annex

• Cede

America's fulfillment of Manifest Destiny led to the ______________ of ancestral lands and being tribal nations pushed onto reservations.

• Genocide

• Trail of Tears

• Native Dispossession

• Indian Removal Act

Why did the United States buy the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in 1853?

• To plant more cotton plantations.

• So missionaries could bring Christianity to natives

• So the U.S. could build a southern railroad

• To gain free access to the Mississippi River

To add onto something that already exists.

• Cede

• Annex

• Dispossession

• Genocide

To surrender or give up something.

• Annex

• Cede

• Genocide

• Purchase