WWJH - Westward Expansion/ Manifest Destiny Quiz

What are the economic and geographic reasons in why settlers wanted to move west?

• Manifest Destiny
• Cheap fertile land and logging, farming, and freedom opportunities
• The growing population of cities areas in the east
• Going west for fun!

In what year did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory?

• 1903
• 1812
• 1848
• 1803

What President was the biggest supporter of Manifest Destiny?

• James K. Polk
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Monroe
• George Washington

What year did the most miners rush to California?

• 1848
• 1849
• 1852
• 1853

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
•  Monroe Doctrine 
•  Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

Results of the U.S. Mexican War
-Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United  States.
-The Rio Grande is made the border between Mexico and the United States.
-Mexico cedes territory that is now part of 7 present­ day states.

Which treaty established these terms of peace to end the war?

• Treaty of Paris
• Adams-Onis Treaty
• Treaty of Jefferson
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

What happened in California in 1849 and what do we call the people who went there in that year?

• Silver/Shiners
• Crops/Slaves
• Gold/Forty-niners
• Gold/Seventy-niners

What piece of land was purchased in order to build something in the South? What did they want to build?

• Mexican Cession/Trails
• Louisiana Territory/Canals
• transcontinental/Oregon Country
• Gadsden Purchase/Railroad

Who were the Mormons?

• 1848 when gold was found in California
• name given to members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
• Mexican General
• created by Congress in 1848 as an area that included present day Oregon

Oregon Trail 

• a route used during the US migration westward
• a person who went to California for the gold rush
• a giving up ( as in territory or rights ) to another
• a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives