Manifest Destiny Basics
This journalist coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in 1845.
Who is John O'Sullivan?
The United States paid this amount for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which worked out to about 3 cents per acre.
What is $15 million?
This 1823 policy statement, written by John Quincy Adams, forbade any further European colonization in the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This empresario received a land grant from Mexico to bring 300 Roman Catholic families to Texas, but 30,000 settlers came instead.
Who is Stephen Austin?
This was the main territory President Polk wanted to acquire from Mexico to open trade with China and East Asia.
What is California?
This related belief held that God had ordained the United States to expand and carry democracy across the continent.
What is American Exceptionalism or Manifest Destiny?
This French leader sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States because he needed cash for wars, didn't really own the land, and couldn't defend it.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This 1818 agreement with Britain divided the Great Lakes evenly and created the world's largest unprotected border.
What is the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
These two famous battles occurred during the Texas War for Independence in 1836, with heroes like Davy Crockett and Sam Houston.
What are the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto?
President Polk sent this general to disputed territory near the Rio Grande River and told him to "wait for an attack."
Who is General Zachary Taylor?
These were the three specific tactics or methods the United States used to acquire land between 1800 and 1852.
What are diplomacy (treaties, negotiation, purchases), war and aggression (military force), and annexation (declaration of ownership)?
President Jefferson originally sent James Madison to France to negotiate for only this port city for $10 million.
What is New Orleans?
President Polk was elected in 1844 on this slogan demanding all of the Oregon Territory, but he eventually compromised at the 49th parallel to avoid war with Britain.
What is "54-40 or Fight"?
This Mexican leader raised an army to force Texican settlers to comply with Mexican restrictions on slavery and immigration.
Who is Santa Anna?
This Congressman introduced the "Spot Resolution" demanding that President Polk identify the exact spot where American blood was shed on American soil.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These are the three main reasons why America needed to expand westward in the early 1800s.
What are: (1) population doubling every 20 years, (2) fear of foreign powers dominating the continent, and (3) the West being rich in resources and providing access to the Pacific for trade?
These two explorers were sent by President Jefferson to map and investigate the new western lands, aided by Sacagawea.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Andrew Jackson marched into Florida and killed Spanish settlers, which led to this 1819 treaty where Spain ceded Florida but the US gave up claims to Texas.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren refused to annex Texas for these two main reasons.
What are: (1) it would anger Mexico, and (2) it would add another slave state and increase tensions over slavery?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, with Mexico ceding 50% of its territory to the US for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
These five presidents from both political parties pursued expansionism over several decades.
Who are Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Polk?
Jefferson had to use this type of interpretation of the Constitution to purchase the Louisiana Territory with money from the National Bank, which solidified the power of the federal government.
What is a loose interpretation?
This European nation helped the United States enforce the Monroe Doctrine because they wanted to maintain the power balance in Europe.
What is Britain (or Great Britain/England)?
This president finally annexed Texas in 1845 using a Joint Resolution, which was technically illegal.
Who is President John Tyler?
These were the four goals of President Polk's platform in 1844, and he achieved all of them during his presidency.
What are: (1) lower the tariff, (2) restore independent Treasury, (3) acquisition of all Oregon Territory, and (4) acquisition of California?