Week 7

Question 0

Annexation

Answer 0

To add a territory to one’s own territory

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Idea popular in the United States during the 1800’s 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 and 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. Gave Mexico $15 million dollars

Question 4

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 4

in 1851, the U.S. Paid Mexico an additional $10 million dollars of a strip of land along southern edge of the present day states of Arizona and New Mexico. With the Gadsden Purchase,the U.S. Main land 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