Manifest destiny

Question 1

What were the different ways the United States acquired territories?

Answer 1

The United States has acquired new island territories through cession, purchase, and occupation,

Question 2

What countries claimed the territories we studied before the United States acquired them?

Question 3

What was the impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?

Answer 3

In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward

Question 4

How did geography influence the way settlers lived in Oregon Country?

Question 5

What were the reasons the US wanted to acquire Florida?

Question 6

Why did some northerners oppose the annexation of Texas?

Question 7

Why did Tejanos resent Americans colonizing Texas?

Question 8

What was the campaign slogan in President Polk’s 1844 campaign?

Question 9

What were the reasons pioneers traveled to Oregon Country?

Question 10

What were the expectations of the Mexican government as it related to the Americans in Texas?

Question 11

What contributed to the start of the Mexican American War?

Question 12

What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Question 13

How would you describe President Polk?

Question 14

What were the opinions of those who opposed the expansion of the US?

Question 15

What was the Gadsden Purchase?

Question 16

What’s the definition of “manifest destiny”

Question 17

What’s the definition of acquire

Question 18

annex/annexation

Question 19

joint occupation

Question 20

Tejano

Question 21

reservation

Question 22

indoctrination

Question 23

genocide