Lesson 15 & 16: Manifest Destiny & Life In The West

Question 1

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 1

U.S. has the right and duty to expand across to the Pacific Ocean

Question 2

How did the U.S. gain land during Westward Expansion?

Answer 2

war, purchase, and treaties

Question 3

How did American double its size?

Answer 3

the Louisiana Purchase

Question 4

Florida Seminole Indians were attacking which state’s wealthy plantations?

Answer 4

Georgia

Question 5

People did not want Texas to become a state because Texas would be a __________ state.

Answer 5

slave

Question 6

How did the Americans in Texas behave when they made the deal with Mexico?

Answer 6

didn’t keep their promise of learning Spanish culture and some just took Mexican land illegally

Question 7

Oregon got its border when ________ made a deal with Great Britain?

Answer 7

President Polk

Question 8

Why did some want to move to Oregon?

Answer 8

good farmland

Question 9

Mexico _________ slavery in 1830.

Answer 9

abolished

Question 10

Polk started which war when America and Mexico were arguing over their border?

Answer 10

Mexican-American War

Question 11

Mexico lost half of its territory as a result of which treaty?

Answer 11

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 12

President Polk believed in expanding America all the way to the ________ _________.

Answer 12

Pacific Ocean

Question 13

The Gadsen Purchase gave America good land for what?

Answer 13

making a railroad to connect southern California

Question 14

An argument against Manifest Destiny was

Answer 14

America was being a bully

Question 15

How was America able to build a railroad to southern California?

Answer 15

Gadsen Purchase

Question 16

How did America explore the land they bought called Louisiana?

Answer 16

Louis and Clark Expedition

Question 17

Who helped Louis and Clark?

Answer 17

Sacagawea and Native Americans

Question 18

People revived the fur trapper trade in the Rocky Mountains and became known as…

Answer 18

Mountain Men

Question 19

Early missionaries to Oregon helped establish what?

Answer 19

The Oregon Trail that future people could use

Question 20

Women in Oregon territory out west were more respected because they worked and survived moving out west. So they helped get which right?

Answer 20

right to vote

Question 21

How did the population of California increase?

Answer 21

Gold Rush (49ers)

Question 22

Chinese came for the gold but were treated very

Answer 22

harsh and were abused

Question 23

Chinese immigrants helped America with

Answer 23

culture and farming skills

Question 24

The Mormons were being treated badly so they packed up and moved to

Answer 24

Utah

Question 25

Who explored the south part of the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 25

Pike

Question 26

Going west, for new hope and promise was difficult because they had to pass what?

Answer 26

Rocky Mountains