LIBERTY UNIVERSITY HIUS 221 FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS & ACCURATE
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny - Correct Answer ✔✔ The U.S. government
led the push to expand the country's borders (first half of the 19th century)
- Thomas Jefferson was president
- Louisiana Purchas in 1803, doubled the size of the country
- Lewis and Clark Expedition, explore west, est. relationships w/ Native Americans
Manifest Destiny - Correct Answer ✔✔ Idea proposed by the newspaper editor John L.
O'sullivan in the 1845's that the U.S. was destined to grow from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Arctic to the tropics.
Government sold land to encourage settlement on the new lands - Correct Answer ✔✔ -
The Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 clarified the border between the U.S. and Canada at
the 49th parallel
- Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the U.S. claimed all territories east of the Mississippi
River alng a norther border to Oregon and the Pacific, while SPain retained the region
from Texas to Cali.
Land hunger in the early 1840's - Correct Answer ✔✔ Land-hunger was described
using the concept of manifest destiny
- Asserted that the U.S. was divinely inspired to expand across the continent and
beyond
Natives and Newcomers - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The demand for land by the white man
greatly hurt and affected the Natives
- Indian Removal Act set aside land in Oklahoma for Native Americans who would be
forcibly moved there from their lands in Georgia and Florida
- President Jackosn ordered that the Natives move..... resulting in the Trail of Tears
- Seminoles from FL fought removal but ultimately left
Forty-Ninth Parallel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Line created to est. the boundaries of U.S.
from Canada (Treaty of 1818)
Trails to the West - Correct Answer ✔✔ As people suffered through the severe
economic depression in 1837, migration to the West seemed increasingly attractive.
People initially traveled with their families but then the gold rush happened and it
became a lot of single men
- Mormons also went west
EXAM QUESTIONS & ACCURATE
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny - Correct Answer ✔✔ The U.S. government
led the push to expand the country's borders (first half of the 19th century)
- Thomas Jefferson was president
- Louisiana Purchas in 1803, doubled the size of the country
- Lewis and Clark Expedition, explore west, est. relationships w/ Native Americans
Manifest Destiny - Correct Answer ✔✔ Idea proposed by the newspaper editor John L.
O'sullivan in the 1845's that the U.S. was destined to grow from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Arctic to the tropics.
Government sold land to encourage settlement on the new lands - Correct Answer ✔✔ -
The Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 clarified the border between the U.S. and Canada at
the 49th parallel
- Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the U.S. claimed all territories east of the Mississippi
River alng a norther border to Oregon and the Pacific, while SPain retained the region
from Texas to Cali.
Land hunger in the early 1840's - Correct Answer ✔✔ Land-hunger was described
using the concept of manifest destiny
- Asserted that the U.S. was divinely inspired to expand across the continent and
beyond
Natives and Newcomers - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The demand for land by the white man
greatly hurt and affected the Natives
- Indian Removal Act set aside land in Oklahoma for Native Americans who would be
forcibly moved there from their lands in Georgia and Florida
- President Jackosn ordered that the Natives move..... resulting in the Trail of Tears
- Seminoles from FL fought removal but ultimately left
Forty-Ninth Parallel - Correct Answer ✔✔ Line created to est. the boundaries of U.S.
from Canada (Treaty of 1818)
Trails to the West - Correct Answer ✔✔ As people suffered through the severe
economic depression in 1837, migration to the West seemed increasingly attractive.
People initially traveled with their families but then the gold rush happened and it
became a lot of single men
- Mormons also went west
