8th Grade Week 7

Question 0

Annexation

Answer 0

To add territory to one s own territory .

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Idea popular in the United States during the 1800 that the country must expand its boundary to the pacific.

Question 2

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 2

Treaty signed between the U.S and Mexico to end the U.S Mexican war.

Question 3

Mexican Cession

Answer 3

Mexico gave up its provinces of California and New Mexico to the U.S.

Question 4

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 4

In 1853 the u.s paid Mexico an additional 10 million dollars for strip of land along the southern edge of the present day states of Arizona and New Mexico.

Question 5

Oregon Territory

Answer 5

Land claim by both the United States and Great Britain this was an ongoing dispute until the treaty of 1846 of the boundary at the 49th parallel.