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Answer: 1. Define the word acquire: ______________________ 2. Explain what “acquisition of new land” means: ______________________ ______________________ ______________________

3. Explain in your own words what Manifest Destiny meant: ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________

4. What did Americans fail to recognize? ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________

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5. Identify the political reasons for Manifest Destiny mentioned in the slide on the left. _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 6. What were economic reason for Manifest Destiny? _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________

7. List social reasons for Manifest Destiny: _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 8. What were push factors and pull factors for Manifest Destiny? Push ___________________ _______________________ Pull ____________________ _______________________ ______________________________________________

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Describe the following information for each of the areas of land acquisition: What land area: _________________________ When acquired: _________________________ How land was acquired: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

What land area: _________________________ When acquired: _________________________ How land was acquired: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

What land area: _________________________ When acquired: _________________________ How land was acquired: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

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What land area: _________________________ When acquired: _________________________ How land was acquired: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________

What land area: __________________________________ When acquired: __________________________________ How land was acquired: __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

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What is a pioneer? What may have been the dangers to pioneers along the Oregon Trail?

What land area: ____________________________ When acquired: ____________________________ How land was acquired: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________

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When was the Mexican War? Who was fighting? Why did the war happen?

What land area: ____________________________ When acquired: ____________________________ How land was acquired: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________

Manifest Destiny/U.S. Mexican War/ Compromise of 1850 7 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 contained the following: -The United States was to pay $15 million to Mexico. -The Rio Grande River was to be the boundary between Texas and Mexico. -Mexico was to give ownership of the California territory to the United States. (This territory contained California, New Mexico, Arizona,

Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.) -Mexicans living in the territory were given a choice. They could resettle within the new boundary of Mexico or become American citizens with full civil rights. 90% of the people living in the California territory chose to become American citizens. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo did not address, deal with, the northwestern border of Texas. Texas had claimed area east of the northern part of the Rio Grande. The border of the state of Texas became an issue when California became a state in 1850. California entered as a “free” state. The southern “slave” states wanted to extend slavery into the New Mexico and Utah Territories. A compromise had to be made to ease the tension between those “slave” states and people that did not want to extend slavery. People in the Utah and New Mexico Territory were to use “popular sovereignty,” the option to vote, to choose for or against slavery.

1. What was an economic result of the Treaty of Hidalgo? 2. Why did the Mexican Cession lead to the Compromise of 1850?

1. Why would some people in the northern states of the U.S. not want to follow the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? 2. Was “popular sovereignty” a good way to deal with the problem of slavery? Why or why not?

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1. Was Texas’s part in the Compromise of 1850 a good way for Texas to deal with its debts? Why or why not?

What land area: ______________________________ When acquired: ______________________________ How land was acquired: ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________

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How can social beliefs influence politics and economics? (Use Manifest Destiny as an example to guide your answer.)

Write the name of the land area in each of the sections.

Student Product Writing assignment: Trace the issues and events that produced the boundaries of the state of Texas.

• Include how the Texas Revolution, Manifest destiny, the Mexican War, and the Compromise of 1850 all contributed to the development of Texas’ boundaries.

• Select the format for your writing such as: interactive notebook, report with graphics, documentary, magazine article, or a collection of narratives using historical fiction.