Westward Expansion
Expanding Horizons
The Path to Florida
Expansion and Conflict in the Southwest
Expansion in the Pacific Northwest
100
This 1803 land purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This vast area was initially controlled by France from 1699 until it was ceded to Spain in 1762.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
100
This explorer's expedition in the 1500s led to Spanish control of Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
100
This territory was annexed by the United States as the 28th state in 1845, avoiding becoming part of Britain.
What is Texas?
100
This trail stretched 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley of Oregon, used by pioneer settlers in the 1840s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
After the American Revolution, the United States received land stretching to this river from Great Britain.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
He was the leader of France who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
200
By the early 1800s, this U.S. state became a haven for escaped enslaved persons and a source of conflict with the Seminole.
What is Florida?
200
This war began in 1846 after a boundary dispute and an altercation near the Rio Grande.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
These fur traders, who lived in the Oregon Country, were known by this name.
Who are mountain men?
300
This process involved diplomacy and conflict, leading to the acquisition of seven new territories by the United States from 1803 to 1853.
What are negotiations and war?
300
In 1803, this U.S. President negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory for $15 million.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This U.S. President sent General Andrew Jackson to drive the Seminole Indians out of Florida.
Who is James Monroe?
300
The Mexican Cession, acquired in 1848, included lands that would become these four states.
What are Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California?
300
In the election of 1844, he ran with the promise to acquire the northwest territory from Britain.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
This mountain range marked the eastern boundary of the new U.S. territory acquired after the American Revolution.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
This expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, explored the newly acquired Louisiana Territory from 1804 to 1806.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
400
During the War of 1812, this General chased Seminoles into Florida and captured two Spanish forts.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
This General captured Veracruz and Mexico City, leading to Mexico's surrender in 1848.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
400
This President negotiated with Britain in 1846 to divide the Oregon Country along the 49th latitude line.
Who is James K. Polk?
500
This 19th-century doctrine held that the United States had the God-given right to expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
This is the amount the United States paid per acre for the Louisiana Territory.
What is $0.03?
500
In 1819, the United States negotiated to buy this land from Spain for $5 million, which included Florida and parts of three other states.
What is the Florida Cession?
500
This 1853 purchase completed the acquisition of land for the continental United States and cost $10 million.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
The shared ownership of the Oregon Country was initially between these two countries from 1818 to 1843.
What are the United States and Britain?