Copy of Assessment: Manifest Destiny and Settling the West

Why did the United States want new acquisitions in the West?

• to have closer ties with Europe

• to protect the natural environment

• to study American Indian cultures

• to give people from the United States more land to farm and live on

Manifest destiny was the belief that the United States should

• expand to the Pacific Ocean.

• honor claims by other countries.

• give all citizens the right to vote.

• treat native peoples with respect.

Jefferson agreed to buy French land to the west so that

• people who had escaped slavery could not hide there.

• American Indians would have a place to live.

• American goods could move through New Orleans.

• the United States would have an ally against Great Britain.

The United States got Florida from

• France

• Great Britain

• Mexico

• Spain

Many Americans in Texas wanted freedom from Mexico so they could

• get free land.

• continue to enslave people.

• build homes at the Alamo.

• help the American Indians.

The United States and Great Britain agreed on a boundary for the

• Oregon Country

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

Why did Mexico give up the territory called the Mexican Cession?

• It received a large price.

• It traded for other territory.

• It had just lost a fierce war.

• It did not want desert lands.

What was the main reason American Indians went onto reservations?

• They wanted better farmland.

• The U.S. government forced them to move.

• Buffalo herds led them there.

• They formed an alliance with Mexicans.

Mexico (a)   , or gave up, territory to the United States.

• acquisition

• ceded

• expedition

• reservation

An area set aside for American Indians to live on is called a(n) (a)   .

• acquisition

• boundary

• expedition

• reservation