Manifest Destiny

This was the name used to describe Andrew Jackson

• Average Joe
• John Doe
• Everyday Drew
• Common Man

Giving jobs to supporters, even though they may not be qualified

• Kitchen Cabinet
• nullify
• Secede
• Spoils System

Which was NOT a requirment of US citizens when moving to Texas

• Learn Spanish
• Pay a fee
• Covert to Catholicism
• become a Mexican citizen

What law required Native Americans to move westward across the Mississippi River?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Trail of Tears
• Indian Removal Act
• Gadsden Purchase

What is the best meaning of Manifest Destiny?

• The belief America should get rid of Slavery in the West
• The belief that America should move all Native Americans out of the United States
• The belief that the U.S. should control all the land from the Atlantic the Pacific
• The belief that Native Americans must give up all their weapons to U.S. Army

Why were Americans interested in moving into Texas?

• Gold was discovered in 1848
• Missionary work
• Land for growing cotton
• Religious freedom

What term would best describe the men who first went the Oregon Territory to hunt and trap for fur?

• Mormons
• Mountain Men
• Forty Niners
• Missionaries

After Texas joined the United States, the U.S. and Mexico argued over the border between the two countries. The United States said the border was …

• The Rio Grande
• The Mississippi River
• The Nueces River
• The Pacific Ocean

This president was associated with American Expansion because it was during his presidency Texas joined the country and it is believed he provoked a war with Mexico to expand further west

• James Monroe
• Andrew Jackson
• John Quincy Adams
• James Polk

Men who went out west to the Oregon Country from the United States trapped these animals for their fur.

• Beavers
• Bears
• Mountain Lions
• Prairie Dogs