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Potrero- From Sea to Shining Sea
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Belief that it was God's will that the United States stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific | Manifest Destiny |
| Land ceded to the United States after Mexico lost a war in 1848 | The Mexican Cession |
| Land the United States purchased from Mexico in 1853 | The Gadsden Purchase |
| Mexican territory that eventually became a US state in 1845 | Texas |
| president responsible for the Louisiana Purchase | Jefferson |
| The treaty signed by the United States and Mexico in 1848, where Mexico gave up territory | Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
| He was leader of the Texas war of Independence | Sam Houston |
| President who signed the Indian Removal Act | Jackson |
| The Year of the Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Nation the US purchased the Louisiana Territory from | France |
| The Year of the Gadsden Purchase | 1853 |
| Under the Indian Removal Act, the Cherokee were forced to move to... | Oklahoma |
| the year of the Mexican Cession | 1848 |
| The year gold was discovered in California | 1849 |
| Mexican president responsible for Mexico's loss of territory to the US | Santa Anna |