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Westward Expansion Fill In The Blanks

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In each blank, try to type in the word that is missing. If you've typed in the correct word, the blank will turn green.

If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed.

When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on.
Question: Who the 13 colonies before the United States?Answer: Great owned the 13 colonies.
Question: How did the United States the 13 colonies?Answer: The United States got the 13 colonies by going to war with Britain, known as the American Revolution, and then officially getting the land from the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
Question: Who previously owned the Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley?Answer: had previously owned it.
Question: How did the United States obtain the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio River ?Answer: We won the land in the and Indian War and then officially got the land with the Treaty of Ghent.
Question: Who the Louisiana Purchase before America?Answer: previously owned the land.
Question: How did the States obtain the Louisiana Purchase?Answer: sold the land to the United States for about $15 million dollars.
Question: Who owned the land known as Florida?Answer: had previously owned it.
Question: How did the States obtain Florida?Answer: Native Americans were coming in from Florida and attacking American settlements, so General Andrew Jackson went into Florida which Spain owned. The US paid $5 million dollars to Spain to say and they also bought Florida from Spain.
Question: Who owned the Red Basin?Answer: Both and Great Britain jointly owned it.
Question: How did America the Red River Basin.Answer: The Convention of 1818 established a border between Canada and America at the 49 degree .
Question: Who had owned the Texas land known as the Texas Annexation?Answer: Mexico previously owned the land.
Question: How did America obtain the land?Answer: obtained the land after Texas separated from Mexico and America let Texas be apart of the United States of America after 9 years of questioning it.
Question: Why did it take so long for America let be apart of the United States?Answer: It took so long because the United States didn't want to bring war with them.
Question: What ended up happening the United States let Texas become a state?Answer: Mexico still had thought Texas belonged to they thought that America was stealing part of their so they started the American - Mexican War.
Question: Who owned the land as the Gadsden Purchase?Answer: owned it.
Question: How did we get the land as the Gadsden Purchase?Answer: We bought it from for about $10 million dollars.
Question: Who the Mexican Cession?Answer: Mexico it.
Question: How did we get the Gadsden Purchase?Answer: We paid $15 million dollars and the Gadsden Treaty.
Question: Who owned the Territory?Answer: Great Britain and America owned it.
Question: How did we get the Treaty?Answer: We outnumbered the British, so the border stayed at 49 latitude and the got to keep Vancouver.
 
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