Title: Unit 8: Manifest Destiny Expansion Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: Unit 8: Manifest Destiny Expansion
Unit 8: Manifest Destiny Expansion
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Content: Mexican Session
A territory acquired through warfare with Mexico in 1848. Gadsden Purchase
29,000 square miles of land along the southern border of the New Mexico Territory. It was bought from Mexico in 1853 in order to build a railroad across the U.S
Manifest Destiny
Means "obvious fate" - It was the idea that America had a divine right to expand West. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Peace treaty at the end of the Mexican-American war. Mexico agreed to give up half its territory and the U.S agreed to pay 15 million dollars. California's main industry in the 1830's
cattle ranching
The name of the compromise that allowed popular sovereignty for the land gained from the US-Mexican War---it allowed for a state to chose with it would be a free or slave state
Compromise of 1850
T/F California was a slave state
False
Why was the Gadsden Purchase beneficial? Flat land allowed for a Railroad System
How was Texas Acquired? Annexation
How was Oregon Acquired? Diplomacy/A Treaty
How was the Mexican Cession Acquired? War
How was Louisiana and the Gadsden Territories Acquired?