Unit 7 Westward Expansion

Question 1

Louisiana purchase

Answer 1

Purchased for $15 million in 1803

Question 2

Florida cession

Answer 2

a 1819 agreement between the United States and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain

Question 3

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 3

signed on February 22, 1819, and ratified in 1821, officially transferred both East and West Florida from Spanish control to the United States.

Question 4

Texas Annexation

Answer 4

process by which the Republic of Texas, which had won independence from Mexico, became a state in the United States, joining the Union as the 28th state in 1845

Question 5

The Oregon treaty

Answer 5

resolved the Oregon boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain

Question 6

The treaty of Paris

Answer 6

signed on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War

Question 7

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 7

aimed to secure a suitable route for a southern transcontinental railroad, establishing the current US-Mexico border and resolving lingering issues from the Mexican-American War

Question 8

Trails of tears

Answer 8

forced displacement of approximately 100,000 Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830