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Unit 8
Westward expansion/Manifest Destiny
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the people called that went west searching for gold? | Forty-niners |
| What caused the Mexican-American War? | The annexation of Texas |
| What piece of land was purchased from Mexico to complete the Transcontinental Railroad across the southern U.S.? | Gadsden Purchase, 1853 |
| What new discovery led large groups of people west to California? | Gold |
| Which group of people came west to escape religious persecution? They later settled in Utah and founded Salt Lake City. | Mormons |
| Which territorial acquisition established the northernmost border of the 49th parallel? | Oregon Territory from Britain, 1846 |
| Who refused to pay taxes because he did not support the Mexican War, and was jailed for it? | Henry David Thoreau |
| What piece of land was added to the U.S. after the Mexican War? | Mexican Cession |
| What invention from the Industrial Revolution helped open the west? | Transcontinental Railroad |
| Which group of people in primarily responsible for building the Transcontinental railroad? | Chinese |
| What caused an increase of Irish immigrants into the U.S.? | The potato famine |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | The idea that the U.S. had the right, and was destined by God, to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific |
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Ms. Mckenzie
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