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