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Unit 7: Review Westward Expansion

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  • Q1
    What do Texas and California have in common?
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    Both depended on slave labor
    Former Mexican Territories
    Large coal deposits
    Settled by Mormans
    60s
  • Q2
    What two states were a part of the Gadsden Purchase?
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    California and Arizona
    New Mexico and Arizona
    Nevada and Arizona
    New Mexico and Texas
    60s
  • Q3
    How did the US gain the Oregon Territory?
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    Mexico sold it for $10 million
    Russia sold it for $15 million
    After a treaty with Britain
    The US voted for annexation of Oregon
    60s
  • Q4
    What goal did the US achieve after gaining the Oregon Territory?
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    Gained land for the Southwest railroad
    Secured the Southern border of the US
    Gained the Western territories for the Native Americans
    Completed expansion westward to the Pacific
    60s
  • Q5
    Why was there a large immigration of Irish in the 1800s?
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    Civil War between Catholics and Protestants
    Unemployment from British mercantilism
    Political unrest in Ireland
    Potato crop famine
    60s
  • Q6
    Why was there a large migration of Chinese in the mid 1800s to the US?
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    Potato Famine in Ireland
    Religious Freedom
    Free land in the Midwest
    The US had an economic boom and lots of jobs
    60s
  • Q7
    How did James K. Polk manage to become the 11th President of the United States.
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    He opposed slavery west of the Mississippi River
    He favored voting in Kansas and Nebraska
    He didn't want to relocate the Cherokee
    He promised to fulfill the United States goal of "Manifest Destiny"
    60s
  • Q8
    Which land territory was a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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    Oregon Teritorry
    Mexican Cession
    Texas
    Louisiana Territory
    60s
  • Q9
    What land territory began the Mexican American War?
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    Texas
    Mexican Cession
    Louisiana Territory
    Oregon Territory
    60s
  • Q10
    Why did so many people migrate to California in 1849?
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    The California gold rush
    The Homestead Act
    The Cherokee were forced out
    Mormans wanted religious freedom
    60s
  • Q11
    What ended the Mexican American War?
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    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    Treaty of Ghent
    Treaty of Paris 1783
    Treaty of Paris 1763
    60s
  • Q12
    What law gave free land West to settlers?
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    Boycotting British Goods
    Annexing Texas
    Homestead Act
    Purchasing the Gadsden
    60s
  • Q13
    What is the name of this painting?
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    The Beautiful Angel
    Homeward Bound
    Westward Expansion
    American Progress
    60s
  • Q14
    What principle of government does this picture represent
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    Checks & Balances
    Republicanism
    Federalism
    Separation of Powers
    60s
  • Q15
    What principle of government does this picture represent?
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    Checks & Balances
    Separation of Powers
    Republicanism
    Federalism
    60s

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