NAME: ________________________________________ DATE: ____________ BLOCK: _____________
4.4 - MANIFEST DESTINY TIMELINE AND MAP
Match each of the ten events below with the description of the event which follows. Then, CIRCLE the first and last
events. Use your textbooks or the internet sources that you can trust.
A. DATE: ___________The Louisiana Purchase
C. DATE: ___________The Treaty of Paris
E. DATE: ___________The Annexation of Texas
G. DATE: ___________The Missouri Compromise
I. DATE: ___________The Establishment of Deseret
B. DATE: ___________The Gadsden Purchase
D. DATE: ___________The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
F. DATE: ___________The Oregon Treaty
H. DATE: ___________Statehood for California
J. DATE: ___________The Texas War for Independence
_____1. Members of the Mormon faith created this community in modern day Utah. They were led to the Great Salt
Lake Basin by Brigham Young – after the founder of the faith, Joseph Smith – had been lynched by an angry mob
in Nauvoo, IL. At the time, the Mormons still practiced polygamy. (p. 257)
_____2. Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery explored this region from 1804 – 1806, claiming all of the land along
the Missouri River for the United States, and making an American claim to the Oregon Country as well. Against
his own “strict constructionist” principles, Thomas Jefferson had bought the territory from Napoleon. (p. 168)
_____3. After gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, hundreds of thousands of speculators flooded into the West.
These so called 49ers were joined by Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants who were also hoping to strike
it rich in America. Formal status within the United States was achieved as a part of the Compromise of 1850.
(p. 288)
_____4. Americans refused to bring this state into the Union when it first applied for statehood in the 1830s, because
they were fearful that the state would tilt the balance of power in the Senate to the slaveholding states. But in
1840s, while pro-slavery President John Tyler was in power, and the ambitiously pro-slavery President James K.
Polk was President-elect, a treaty was signed to bring Texas into the United States. It would become a state \
later in the year. (p. 272)
_____5. The United States purchased this tiny stretch of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico as part of an
arrangement to construct a railroad. (p. 291)
_____6. From it’s very foundation, the United States always had more land than it could occupy. The treaty which gave
the nation its independence also granted the United States all of the territory to the Mississippi River. From the
beginning in the United States, the west signified the future! (p. 85)
_____7. Maine became a free state. The following year, Missouri became a slave state. A line starting at the
southernmost boundary of Missouri was measured going West. To the south of the boundary line at 36° 30’,
slavery would be legal. To the north of the line, slavery would be forbidden. (p. 212 – 213)
_____8. This Treaty ended the Mexican-American War. It established the southern boundary of the United States with
Mexico at the Rio Grande River, and it forced Mexico to sell most of its northern territory – the Mexican Cession
– to the United States for $20 Million. (p. 275)
_____9. Even though he had run for President in 1844 with the campaign slogan “54° 40’ or Fight!,” President Polk
decided to negotiate a treaty with England over this territory. The United States took the Southern portion of
the territory; England took the northern reaches. The line of demarcation was set between the United States at
England at the 49° N Latitude line. (p. 272)
_____10. Sam Houston forced Santa Anna to sign a treaty giving up his northern provinces after capturing him at the
Battle of San Jacinto. For the next nine years, the Lone Star Republic existed as an independent nation. Later, it
would be annexed by the United States of America. (p. 269)
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Map of American Expansion
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Identify each of the following places on the map:
1. _____________________________________________
GEOGRAPHY BANK:
Florida, 1819
2. _____________________________________________
Louisiana Purchase, 1803
3. _____________________________________________
Texas, 1845
Gadsden Purchase, 1853
4. _____________________________________________
The Oregon Territory, 1846
5. _____________________________________________
The Mexican Cession
6. _____________________________________________
The Treaty of Paris Borders
The Original 13 Colonies
7. _____________________________________________
The Treaty of Ghent
8. _____________________________________________
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