US History Westward Expansion

The migration of the Plains Indians mirrored the movement of the buffalo.

• False
• True

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size. 

• Texas Annexation 
• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Territory
• Mexican Cession

Which word means "to move to a new place"?

• Migrate
• Annex
• Languish
• Exterminate

In the 19th century people move towards the Pacific Ocean, this idea was called?

• the pacific coast
• the old west
• westward expansion
• civil war

The time frame which people migrated westward was

• 1600s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

The purpose of the Homestead Act was to develop the West

• True
• False

What was the largest amount of land one individual could purchase through the Homestead Act?

• 80 acres
• 160 acres
• 200 acres
• 240 acres

Who were African Americans who moved to the Great Plains because they had been treated badly in the East?

• exodusters
• homesteaders
• sodbusters
• pioneers

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
• Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
• Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

- area of land set aside for Native Americans.

• Reservation
• Exoduster
• Pony Express
• Gold Rush