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The Mexican War
Question | Answer |
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What are the three largest states? | Alaska, Texas, and California |
Who coined the phrase "manifest destiny"? | John L.O' Sullivan |
What did the phrase "manifest destiny" describe? | America's God-given right to take over all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
What did American expansion have a lot to do with? | economics |
Many people had made the trip west on the...? | Oregon Trail |
Many people died of what diseases on the trip west? | dysentery and cholera |
What two countries jointly controlled Oregon for a while? | United States and Britain |
What future states did Northern Mexico include? | New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Utah, and California |
What two areas had a large population? | New Mexico(30,000) and California(3,500) |