Liberty University HIUS 221 Final Exam
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Week 10 - correct answer ✔✔
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
Indian Removal Act 1830 - correct answer ✔✔Congressional legislation that set aside land in
the Oklahoma Territory for American Indians who were to be removed from the eastern US.
Resulting in the "Trail of Tears"
The U.S. War with Mexico - correct answer ✔✔U.S. government desired the lands Mexico
controlled in western North America, but Mexico said nahh. Mexico also rejected Texas's
declaration of independence in 1836, but then America annexed Texas in 1845.
- U.S. won the war which lasted from 1846-1848
Weeks 11 & 12 - correct answer ✔✔
The Compromise of 1850 - correct answer ✔✔Tensions rose when California sought to join the
Union, as a free state in 1850. The terms of the compromise are
- California admitted as a free state
- Slavery kept legal in D.C., slave trade was a abolished there tho
- Fugitive Slave act: Northerners had to return runaway slaves
with verified solutions already passed
Week 10 - correct answer ✔✔
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
Indian Removal Act 1830 - correct answer ✔✔Congressional legislation that set aside land in
the Oklahoma Territory for American Indians who were to be removed from the eastern US.
Resulting in the "Trail of Tears"
The U.S. War with Mexico - correct answer ✔✔U.S. government desired the lands Mexico
controlled in western North America, but Mexico said nahh. Mexico also rejected Texas's
declaration of independence in 1836, but then America annexed Texas in 1845.
- U.S. won the war which lasted from 1846-1848
Weeks 11 & 12 - correct answer ✔✔
The Compromise of 1850 - correct answer ✔✔Tensions rose when California sought to join the
Union, as a free state in 1850. The terms of the compromise are
- California admitted as a free state
- Slavery kept legal in D.C., slave trade was a abolished there tho
- Fugitive Slave act: Northerners had to return runaway slaves
