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Which former president carried out the Indian Removal Act that led to the infamous Trail of Tears?
A: Andrew Jackson
What territory was the Wilmot Proviso meant to be applied to?
A: The land given by the Mexican Recession
What event led to many Americans assimilating into western Mexican-American culture in the Sacramento River Valley?
A: The Gold Rush
What did the Homestead Act lead to?
A: Migration to the West by farmers
What was the effect of the Manifest Destiny?
A: Inspired Americans to move and settle western of the United States.
Who’s campaign relied on the phrase “54-40 or fight!” to press the nation into Oregon country?
A: President James K. Polk
What territorial change did the Liberty Party support?
A: Texas’ annexation into the United States of America
What political party was against the Mexican-American war?
A: Conscious Whigs
What negotiation admitted California as a state?
A: The Compromise of 1850
What was the main effect Mexican American War?
A: American ended up with a lot (roughly 55%) of Mexico's land.
What president oversaw the expansion of the transcontinental railroad?
A: Franklin Pierce
The Ostend Manifesto was a plan by America to buy what area of land?
A: Cuba
What was one of primary causes for the Mexican-American war?
A: Slavery, border dispute
Fill in the blank :
The Gadsden Purchase was conducted to extend ______.
A: the Transcontinental Railroad
What was the effect of the Battle of the Alamo?
A: Inspired many Texans to get revenge
Which president extended American territory by purchasing Alaska in 1867?
A: Andrew Johnson
Where did the California constitution extend the Missouri Compromise line to?
A: the Pacific Ocean
What ideal present in the mid 19th century led to territorial conflict with Mexico?
A: Manifest Destiny
What was the effort called to relocate Native American Tribes to federal territory out West?
A: The Indian Removal Act
What effect did Stephen Austin have?
A: Helped Texas settlers gain their independence
granted land from Mexico.
Who proposed popular sovereignty in the California constitution?
A: Steven Douglas
Why was President James K. Polk motivated to reject the treaty with Mexico?
Many southerners wanted the United States to receive larger gains in territory.
What diplomatic agreement gave the Mexican Cession to the United States of America?
A: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
As farmers moved West for free land in the 1840s, what route did the mass migration take?
A: the Oregon Trail
What was the effect of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842?
A: Settled boundary disputes in the North West and fixed most borders between the United States and Canada.