8th Grade Week 7

Question 0

Annexation

Answer 0

To add a territory to the one’s own territory

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Idea popular in the United States during the 1800s that the country must expand its boundaries to the pacific

Question 2

Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

Answer 2

Treaty signed between the U.S. And Mexico to end the U.S. Mexican war. Mexico gave up all claims to Texas agreed to the rio grande as the border between Texas and Mexico

Question 3

Mexican cession

Answer 3

Mexico gave up its provinces of California and New Mexico to the U.S. In return the U.S. $15 millions dollars

Question 4

Gadsden purchase

Answer 4

In 1852, the U.S. paid Mexico an additional $10 million dollars for a strip of land along the southern edge of the present day states of Arizona and Mexico. With the Gadsden purchase, the U.S. mainland reached its present size.

Question 5

Oregon territory

Answer 5

Land claimed by both the United States and Great Britain. This was an ongoing dispute until the treaty of 1846, which set the boundary at the 49th parallel, where it is today.