Different Events
Territories
Mexican-American War
Compromises
Vocab Words
100
What is the Homestead Act?
Anyone that moved west could claim 160 acres if they lived on it for 5 years and built a home.
100
What country was associated with the Lousiania Purchase?
What is France?
100
What years did the Mexican American War?
1845-1848
100
Who wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Who is Henry Clay?
100
What was the Transcontinential Railroad?
What is the first continuous rail line connecting the United States Atlantic and Pacific coasts
200
What was the Gold Rush?
It made the California area get to statehood faster when gold was found there.
200
What was the Adams Onis Treaty?
Treaty with Spain to get Florida.
200
What is Mexican Cession?
What is when 529,000-square-mile territory Mexico was ceded to the U.S after the war.
200
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
What is Utah and New Mexico could vote on the issue of slavery using popular sovereignty and California entered as a free state.
200
What immigrant groups was in the west?
The Chinese, who began searching for gold, then moved to working on the railroads.
300
What was the Gadsen Purchase?
A purchase from Mexico for a small piece of land to help with the Transcontinential Railroad.
300
In 1846 the United States and Great Britain negotiated the boundary of the disputed territory. Which factor made the negotiations more challenging?
What is the 49th Parallel was significant because it helped settle border disputes between the United States and Great Britain peacefully, especially in the Oregon Territory, "Fifty-four forty or fight".
300
What ended the U.S. Mexican War?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
36'30, Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state
300
What is the definition of Manifest Destiny?
What is, it was God's will for Americans to move west.
400
What was the significance of the Oregon Territory?
Americans have finally reached the Pacific Ocean. From Sea to Shining Sea.
400
What was one impact of the Lousiania Purchase?
What is doubled the size of the U.S.
400
Why did the U.S. Mexican War happen?
What is because Texas annexed by the U.S. in 1845.
400
What did the Compromise of 1850 do for America?
It outlawed slave trade in D.C, made the Fugitive Slave Act a federal law.
400
What president is associated with Manifest Destiny?
What is President James Polk.
500
What was Mexican Cession?
It happened after the Mexican-American War in 1848, where the US bought land from Mexico for $15 million. The land was in the Southwest area of America.
500
What were the requirements mentioned in the Northwest Ordinance?
Territories could become states if they reached a population of 60,000, established towns and schools.
500
What are two characteristics of the American Southwest that reflects the influence of Spanish culture and colonization?
What is there are Spanish missions and the use of Spanish language. Spanish missions were built to spread Christianity and are still seen in the region today. Many cities and geographic features have Spanish names, showing the lasting influence of Spanish settlers.
500
Why were people upset with the Fugitive Slave Act?
It allowed for bounty hunters to enter the north and it made it a Federal Law to happen.
500
What is the significance of this image associated with Manifest Destiny.
What is she signifies the "divinely ordained" right of the United States to expand westward, bringing light, technology, and "civilization" to the dark western frontier.