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It was our right and duty to take land all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans was known as
a) California Gold Rush
b) Louisiana Purchase
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Push for the west

In 1853 the U.S. paind $10 million to Mexico was a piece of land that was to be used for the trans-continental railroad. What was it known as?
a) Gasden Purchase
b) Louisiana Purchase
c) Texas Expansion
d) Oregon Trail

One of the main causes of the Mexican-American Wars was the annexation of what area?
a) Gasden Purchase
b) Manifest Destiny
c) Mormon Trail
d) Texas

Americans traveled along what trail as they headed southwest to trade goods with Mexican merchants and to move cattle?
a) California
b) Mormon
c) Oregon
d) Sante Fe

Which is a way the pioneers could gain economically by traveling west?
a) owning their own farms
b) building houses
c) selling crops
d) selling new technology items

Searching for religious freedoms what group traveled west and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah?
a) Puritans
b) Mormons
c) Catholics
d) Pilgrims

A diverse population settled on the West Coast during the middle 1800's because
a) religious freedoms
b) gold rush
c) new technology
d) more freedoms

Who was known as the Manifest Destiny president?
a) Monroe
b) Washington
c) Jefferson
d) Polk

Gold was discovered where in California
a) Sutters Mill
b) Rio River
c) Los Angelos
d) San Diego

Treaty of Gualdalupe Hildalgo resulted in what new territory for the US?
a) Louisiana Purchase
b) Mexican Cession
c) Gadsen Purchase
d) new frontier

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