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Social Studies
Unit 9 Study Guide
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The United States wanted new land in the West because they wanted to
give people from the United States more land to farm and live on.
Manifest destiny was the belief that the United States should expand to the
Pacific Ocean.
Jefferson agreed to buy French land to the west so that American goods
could move through New Orleans.
The United States got Florida from Spain.
Many Americans in Texas wanted freedom from Mexico so they could keep
their slaves.
The United States and Great Britain agreed on a boundary for the Oregon
Country.
Because they just lost a fierce war, Mexico gave up the territory called the
Mexican Cession.
The main reason American Indians went to reservations was because the
U.S. government forced them to move there.
Some newcomers to the West learned the skills to be cowboys from the
Mexicanos.
Many owners of ranchos in the United States spoke Spanish because the
U.S. got the land from Mexico.
The forty-niners traveled west for gold.
A miners claim was known as the land the miner worked.
Many Chinese immigrants found work helping to build the transcontinental
railroad.
Utah was settled mainly by Mormons.
Chief Joseph lead the Nez Percs toward Canada to be safe from the U.S.

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