Mapping
Expansion
Compromises and Treaties
Texas and California
Review- Important People from American History
100
Letter B represents what territory?
The Louisiana Territory/ The Louisiana Purchase
100
This 19th century movement states that Americans had the God given right to expand the country from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
100
What is another name for the Missouri Compromise?
The Compromise of 1820
100
What was the primary issue that caused Texas to declare independence from Mexico?
Slavery
100
What two people from Tennessee served at the Alamo?
Davy Crockett and Sam Houston
200
Letter A represents what territory?
Mexican Cession
200
Why did abolitionists not want to expand west?
They did not want slavery to be expanded.
200
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A compromise between the north and the south that stated that there should be an equal number of slave states and an equal number of free states.
200
Why did some Americans oppose the annexation of Texas?
It would expand slavery.
200
What are the two Tennessee presidents?
Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk
300
The peach colored area is called the...
Texas Territory
300
Why did the Mormons go west?
To escape religious persecution.
300
The treaty of Guadalupe- Hildago determined this physical feature of the boundary between Mexico and the United States.
The Rio Grande
300
What were the American Migrants who traveled west during the Gold Rush called?
Forty-Niners
300
Who is the father of the United States Constitution?
James Madison
400
Letter C is representative of...
The United Sates before expansion.
400
Mormons traveled from Illinois to ________ to find religious freedom.
Utah
400
What was an unintended consequence of the Missouri Compromise?
It further divided the North and the South on the issue of slavery.
400
What people group came to the United States and replaced the Forty-Niners in the gold mines?
Chinese Immigrants
400
What two people went out into the Louisiana Territory and explored the west. They were the original frontiersman.
Lewis and Clark
500
Letter D represents the...
Florida Territory
500
Polk's primary accomplishment was...
Expanding the United States to the West.
500
What territory was gained after signing a treaty with Great Britain?
The Oregon Territory
500
What occurred in 1849 that led many people to travel to California?
The Gold Rush
500
What president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France?
Thomas Jefferson