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7A Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a push factor? | Reason to leave your home and move elsewhere |
| What is a pull factor? | Reason to move to a particular place |
| What was the Northwest Ordinance? | A plan for creating new states in the Ohio River Valley in the years immediately following the Treaty of Paris. |
| What was the Treaty of Paris? | Agreement that ended the Revolutionary War |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | Belief that the USA should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean |
| Why did Americans support Manifest Destiny? | To spread Democracy and the American Culture |
| Why is the Louisiana Purchase important? | It doubled the size of the country |
| How did the USA get Florida? | After Andrew Jackson invaded and took control, Spain sold Florida for $5 million. |
| Why did the USA want Florida? | The Seminole Indians had been attacking Georgia and Florida had been a hiding place for runaway slaves. |
| How did Mexico become an independent nation? | It won its independence from Spain in 1821. |
| What is an empresario? | An agent whose job was to bring settlers to Texas |
| Why were the Americans in Texas in the 1830s unhappy? | They had to follow Mexican law, including becoming Catholic. |
| What happened at the Alamo? | Mexican leader Santa Ana attacked the Texans and killed them all in 1836. |
| How did the Texas respond to the Alamo Massacre? | Sam Houston attacked Santa Ana at San Jacinto and forced him to give Texas its independence. |
| Who governed Texas from 1836 until 1845? | Texas was its own country with Sam Houston as its president. |
| Why were some Americans concerned about admitting Texas as a new state? | Because Texas had slaves, they were afraid the balance between slave and free states would be upset. |
| How did the USA acquire Oregon? | The USA and Great Britain agreed to split the Oregon Country at the 49th parallel because neither wanted another war. |
| Why did the USA go to war with Mexico in 1846? | Mexico and the USA did not agree on the southern border of Texas. |
| How did the U.S. Mexican War end? | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war: Mexico gave the USA a huge piece of land called the Mexican Cession. |
| What was the Gadsden Purchase? | The USA paid $10 million to Mexico for the southern part of Arizona and New Mexico to accommodate a railroad. |
| How did the USA acquire Alaska? | Secretary of State Seward bought Alaska from Russia for $7 million. |
| Which president is most remembered for Manifest Destiny? | James K. Polk |
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