Westward Expansion Review

Westward Expansion Review

8th Grade

18 Qs

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Westward Expansion Review

Westward Expansion Review

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History

8th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RL.7.9, RL.8.9

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these terms describes the idea that Americans had the God-given right to expand across the continent?

Manifest Destiny

Westward Expansion

Territorial Acquisition

Annexation

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Select THREE: How did Americans settling in Texas disobey Mexican laws?

They brought slaves into Texas

They refused to become Mexican Citizens

They did not convert to Catholicism

They began to form cities and town

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of America's first major territorial acquisition?

The Mexican Cession

The Louisiana Purchase

The Annexation of Texas

The Gadsden Purchase

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did President Thomas Jefferson want to expand the size of the country?

He wanted America to spread slavery into the west

He wanted to become more popular than George Washington

He wanted more land so Americans could start small farms

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were some Americans opposed to the annexation of Texas?

it might start a war with Great Britain

Texas did not have fertile farmland

Texas would become a slave state which meant that slavery would be expanding into the West

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Louisiana Purchase______________the size of the US

tripled

doubled

decreased

quadrupled

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which document ended the Mexican-American war?

Adams-Onis Treaty

Indian Removal Act

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Louisiana Purchase

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