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1.Land signed over by Great Britain, achieved goal of Manifest Destiny
Oregon Territory
2. Annexation of Texas, border disagreement
Reasons for U.S. Mexican War
3.Discovery at Sutter's Mill, California in 1849
Gold
4. Land sold by Spain in Adam Onis Treaty
Florida
Group of immigrants who settled the midwest and farmed
Germans
5. Belief that immigrants are taking away jobs from Americans
Nativism
6. Land gained after U.S. Mexican War
Mexican Cession
7. Opened up land for westward expansion
Louisiana Purchase
8. Worked in California goldfields
Chinese
Irish
Both
8. Wanted future economic prosperity
Irish
Both
Chinese
8. Widespread famine due to loss of a staple crop
Both
Irish
Chinese
9. Which location on the map was purchased to complete construction of a transcontinental railroad?
E
10. What was Manifest Destiny?
Belief that the U.S. should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
11. What factors caused Americans to believe in Manifest Destiny?
Expanding democracy, population boom, economic prosperity, inexpensive farmland, and discovery of gold and other natural resources
112. How did a disagreement over boundaries result in the U.S.-Mexican War?
Mexico wanted the Nueces River to serve as the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico, but the U.S. believed the boundary was the Rio Grande
13. What were two ways the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was significant?
Ended the U.S.-Mexican War and ceded the land in the Mexican Cession to the U.S.
