Western Expansion Review

This Act, signed in 1830, forced Native Americans off of their lands and were made to live on smaller areas of land west of the Mississippi River.

• The Missouri Compromise
• The Indian Removal Act
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Stamp Act

This event nearly doubled the size of the United States in 1803?

• The Oregon Territory
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Indian Removal Act

What was the agreement that allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state and created a "slavery line" at the 36N 30 line?  (This line stated that any new states north of it would enter the union as free states, while below the line could allow slaves.)

• The Oregon Territory
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The California Gold Rush

What was the wagon road that led the pioneers west from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest?

• The Trail of Tears
• The Westward Trail
• The Lewis and Clark Trail
• The Oregon Trail

What was the impact of the Lewis & Clark Expedition?

• The United States gained the land of the Oregon Territory.
• The United States gained over 500 million acres of land west of the Mississippi River.
• It was an almost religious belief that America was destined to spread democracy and their beliefs all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
• It provided maps of the Louisiana Territory and motivated people to start expanding westward and settling west of the Mississippi River.

The almost religious belief that Americans were destined to settle the country all the way to the Pacific Ocean, spreading progress, freedom, and democracy along the way.

• Westward Expansion
• Indian Removal
• Manifest Destiny
• Freedom Destiny

The impact of this event was that it allowed a crowded United States to expand west of the Mississippi River.  It also gave the United States control of the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans.

• The Mississippi Purchase
• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Louisiana Compromise
• The Manifest Destiny

The impact of this event led to boomtowns being created, an increase in population of 300,000, and California becoming a state in 1850.

• The Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny
• The Oregon Trail
• The California Gold Rush

The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from Spain in 1803.

• True
• False

Both the U. S. and Great Britain claimed the Oregon Territory.  Arguments over this area of land almost led to a war between the two countries until they reached a compromise.

• True
• False