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Westward Expansion
Test Description: Growth of the United States
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The potential for new markets, cheap farmland, and gold are all connected to ?
A
Economic Motives for passing the Northwest Ordinance
B
Reasons for purchasing the Gadsden Purchase
C
Reasons for issuing the Monroe Doctrine
D
Economic Motives for Manifest Destiny
2) Which area did the United States acquire in 1846 after negotiations with Great Britian?
A
Mexican Cession
B
Gadsden Purchase
C
Oregon Territory
D
Texas annexation
3) Name the idea James K Polk advertised about spreading Democracy
A
Indian Removal Act
B
54 40 or fight
C
Spoils System
D
Manifest Destiny
4) Which of these was a goal shared by many advocates of Manifest Destiny?
A
Occupying all of North America
B
voting rights
C
Abolishing slavery
D
Removing all debt
5) Name the territory the United States gained in order to connect the Railroads?
A
Texas Annexation
B
Mexican Cession
C
Oregon Territory
D
Gadsden Purchase
6) Which reason did the United States give for declaring war against Mexico in 1846?
A
To end Mexican slave rebellion
B
To respond to attacks on U.S. merchant ships by Mexican Pirates
C
To overturn a corrupt Mexican government
D
To defend U.S. territory from Mexican aggression
7) What did the compromise of 1850 do?
A
none of the above
B
U.S. Mexican War
C
It determined the boundary of slave and free states
D
Civil War
8) U.S annexation of _____________ led to the U.S. Mexican War?
A
New Mexico
B
Texas
C
Florida
D
California
9) What state if the United States acquire from Spain in 1819?
A
California
B
Florida
C
Texas
D
California
10) California and Texas were both part of which European country?
A
France
B
Great Britain
C
Spain
D
Germany
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