Unit 7: Migration Westward-Expanding the United States

You are a pioneer in the 1800s, and you want to go to Salt Lake City to escape persecution. Which trail would you take.

• National Road
• California Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

All of the following were reasons people moved West EXCEPT...

• slavery
• adventure
• gold
• good farmland

Lousiana Purchase
Republic of Texas
Oregon Territory
What is the best title for this list?

• Examples of U.S. Territorial Expansion
• Examples of early American colonies
• Areas settled by Dutch Explorers
• Areas Explored by Lewis and Clark

In an effort to achieve Manifest Destiny, all of the following were areas of western expansion by the U.S. EXCEPT...

• Gadsden Purchase
• Calgary Stampede
• Mexican Cession
• Lousiana Purchase

As Americans moved west, still more ______moved to the U.S., giving it a continuous source of labor.

• immigrants
• farmers
• pioneers
• soldiers

Why did MOST pioneers move to the Midwest?

• to be close to the ocean
• for good farm lands
• to open new stores
• new cities to explore

telephone
radio
television
personal computer
In what field have all these inventions benefitted society in the U.S.?

• transportation
• medicine
• communication
• agriculture

As the US expanded westward, it acquired land through all of the following means EXCEPT

• by fighting wars with other countries that held the lands
• by fighting wars with Native Americans that held the lands
• by purchasing land from other countries
• by purchasing land from Native Americans

Which of the following describes what settlers traveling west along the California Trail in the 1840s were hoping to find once they reached California?

• oil and gold
• farmland and gold
• oil and coal
• farmland and coal

Those that supported the idea of Manifest Destiny believed that the U.S. should...

• give land to American Indian tribes
• pay settlers to live on the plains
• spread democracy overseas
• spread from ocean to ocean