Quiz - Westward Expansion

Select the area that the US bought for $15 million and doubled the size of the US

Select the area that Mexico ceded to the U.S. for $15 million

Select the area that was the beginning of the U.S. through the Treaty of Paris

Select the area that the US bought from Mexico for $10 million to be used for railroads

Select the area that the US acquired from Spain in 1819

Correctly Match the Map

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Treaty of Paris

Louisiana Purchase

Mexican Cession

Gadsen Purchase

Adam Onis Treaty

Texas Annexation

Oregon Country

Define Manifest Destiny

• Manifest Destiny is the idea that the U.S. should remain within its original borders.
• Manifest Destiny is the belief that the US should expand Westward and control the area from the Atlantic to the Pacific

• Manifest Destiny is the belief that the US should expand Eastward and control the area from the Pacific to the Atlantic

• Manifest Destiny is the idea to conquer other territories

Which of the following doubled the size of the United States

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Oregon Trail
• The Gadsden Purchase

The US acquired the Louisiana Territory from which country

• Mexico
• France
• Great Britain
• Spain

The main reason for the U.S.-Mexican war was due to_____

• economic competition with Britain
• the abolition of slavery in the South
• disputes over immigration policies
• dispute over border