Module 6 Test
Manifest Destiny

  1. During the first half of the 19th century, territorial expansion led to
  2. Increased tensions over slaver
  3. Improved relations with bordering nations
  4. Fewer conflicts with Native Americans
  5. Decreased domestic demand for manufactured goods
  6. The annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession are best described as efforts by the United States to
  7. Remove European threats
  8. Limit the spread of slavery
  9. End wars of aggression
  10. Fulfill Manifest Destiny
  11. Which event was most influenced by the principle of Manifest Destiny?
  12. Founding of Jamestown
  13. Defeat of Britain in the Revolutionary War
  14. Purchase of Florida
  15. Acquisition of the Mexican Cession
  16. The main goal of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was to
  17. Obtain equal rights for women
  18. Make the public aware of environmental problems
  19. Correct the abuses of big business
  20. Organize the first labor union in the United States
  21. During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they
  22. Feared the admission of new slave states
  23. Wanted to limit the power of national government
  24. Were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans
  25. Supported an isolationist foreign policy
  1. The invention of the steel plow, the passage of the Homestead Act, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad all contributed to the
  2. Development of the Great Plains
  3. Growth of the plantation system
  4. Extension of slavery into the western territories
  5. Gold rushes in California and Nevada
  6. Which was a major result of the Homestead Act of 1862?
  7. Increased public awareness of the need for conservation of natural resources
  8. Increased development of Western lands
  9. Decreased conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers
  10. Decreased economic opportunities for easterners
  11. After the Civil War, Native Americans were relocated to reservations primarily because
  12. The Federal Government wanted to preserve tribal cultures
  13. The Native Americans had violated most of their treaties with the Federal Government
  14. Most of the tribal chiefs requested government protection from white settlers
  15. Settlers, ranchers, and prospectors wanted their tribal lands.
  16. Define Manifest Destiny.
  17. Give 3 examples of people who migrated west and their reasons for moving.