STAAR Vocab 1

The God-given right for America to spread from the East to the West Coast.

• Westward Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Ordinance

What is the term for the group of the first 13 British colonies on the east coast of North America that eventually formed the United States?

• Westward Expansion

• Government

• Union

• 13 English Colonies

Which term describes new requirements that territories had to meet to become states.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Manifest Destiny

• Treaty of Paris

• Louisiana Purchase

What term does this picture show?

• Union

• Government

• Liberty

• Immigrant

Having the freedom to do and say what you want without being restrained.

• Liberty

• Manifest Destiny

• Government

• Union

What is the name of the agreement signed in 1783 that ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized American independence?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Ordinance

• Treaty of Paris

• Manifest Destiny

Union

• The states coming together to form the U.S.

• When two people come together to get married.

• The act of a group of people coming together to form a whole.

• A person leaving their country to come to another.

What is the term for the period of American history characterized by the territory of the United States expanding across the North American continent?

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Louisiana Purchase

• Treaty of Paris

Which historical event refers to the acquisition of territory by the United States from France in 1803, approximately doubling the size of the nation?

• Treaty of Paris

• Louisiana Purchase

• Northwest Ordinance

• Manifest Destiny

Who makes the laws and enforces them?

• Union

• Liberty

• Governor

• Government