Vocabulary
Which vocabulary word from Historical Summary #4 means "negotiations between other nations"?
diplomacy
After Lewis and Clark journeyed to this destination, the United States claimed this land, and then later obtained this land through a peaceful negotiation with Great Britain.
Oregon Country
Before becoming the 7th President of the United States (and the first “self-made man” to do so), he led his troops to invade Florida without presidential or Congressional permission.
Andrew Jackson
What was the tragic and deadly journey in which the Cherokee Indians were forced from their homes and ancestral lands called, AND which future state were they relocated to?
Trail of Tears; Oklahoma
Through what method(s) [diplomacy, purchase, warfare] did the United States obtain the Louisiana Territory in 1803?
Purchase and diplomacy
Which vocabulary word from Historical Summary #4 means "an addition”?
annex
The last addition to the continental United States, it was bought from Mexico for $10 million dollars due to its flat land that could provide a good railroad route between California and the East.
Gadsden Purchase
This president dealt with the question of the Constitutionality of purchasing land when acquiring the Louisiana Territory.
Thomas Jefferson
What two problems were going on in Florida that caused Andrew Jackson and U.S. troops to occupy Florida (although permission to invade was not allowed)?
Slaves were running away to Florida, and the Seminole Indians from Florida were raiding Georgian plantations.
In order to increase the size of the United States and gain political control over a troubling area, we first used violence and then diplomacy with Spain. Which territory was added in 1821?
Florida
Which vocabulary word from Historical Summary #4 means "gaining ownership or possession of an asset/object bought or otherwise gained”?
acquisition
Spanning from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, it was purchased for $15 million dollars and nearly doubled the size of the country at the time; Napoleon’s expensive wars made him willing to sell this land to the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
In addition to his involvement in securing the Texas Annexation and Oregon Country acquisitions, he was the president who ordered U.S. troops from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande River to claim it as the rightful border of Texas rather than compromise, beginning the War with Mexico.
James K. Polk
What were the TWO reasons that some Americans were against the idea of Texas becoming a state?
Many Northerners did not want another slave state added to the country; fear of war with Mexico
After years of peacefully sharing Oregon Territory with Great Britain, we peacefully split the area at which line of latitude?
The 49th parallel
Which vocabulary phrase from Historical Summary #4 means "the belief that it was the fate of the United States to expand from coast to coast”?
Manifest Destiny
Due to its fertile farmland and the successful Austin colony, the people who lived in this territory had been asking the United States Congress to make it a state for ten years before Congress agreed.
Texas Annexation
With the Spanish government’s permission and later Mexico’s continued permission, he led the first American settlers into Texas in 1821 and set up a colony.
Stephen Austin
Although controversial to some Americans, this ended the War with Mexico and secured about half of Mexico’s territory for the United States.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ownership of Texas changed hands a few different times. In order, who were the THREE previous owners of Texas before it was added to the United States in 1845?
It was first owned by Spain; next, Mexico became an independent country; then, Texas was an independent country for 10 years and known as the Lone Star Republic.
Which vocabulary word from Historical Summary #4 means "something yielded or given up (such as rights, property, or land/territory)”?
cession
To expand as much as possible, the United States went to war for two years after an offer of purchase was declined; then, after a treaty and a $15 million dollar purchase, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming were added to the United States.
Mexican Cession
He was the leader of Mexico and of the Mexican troops while they fought Americans at the Alamo in order to defend Mexico’s claim to Texas; he was later captured and forced to give up the region of Texas to the United States.
General Santa Anna
Why was the Louisiana Purchase criticized? Include at least TWO of the FOUR answers.
It would be too expensive; it would make the United States too large to be run effectively; it would cause a shift of political power from the East to the West; land purchase was not a right given to presidents in the Constitution.
Which THREE territories were acquired through purchase ONLY (no bloodshed or battles involved)?
Louisiana Purchase, Oregon Country, and Gadsden Purchase