US History Westward Expansion Test

Why did people move west?

• jobs on the railroad, land, and gold

• water, plains, and mountains

• oceans, lakes, and streams

• they didn't like America the way it was

Thomas Jefferson made this deal with France in 1803. It doubled the size of the United States.

• Texas Stampede

• Louisiana Purchase

• Louisiana Buy Back

• California Gold Rush

What is the belief to expand all of America from sea to sea?

• Westward Expansion

• Alamo

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

What did Lewis and Clark do?

• worked on the railroad

• grew corn west of the Mississippi

• built the first sod houses

• Explored the west and drew maps

Who helped Lewis and Clark?

• The Railroad Engineers

• Pocahontas

• Sacagawea

• The Pioneers

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• Native Americans were forced to help Lewis and Clark

• Native Americans were forced into slavery

• Native Americans were forced to work on the Railroad

• Native Americans were forced to move onto reservations

Native Americans were forced to...

• move west to work on the railroad

• accept a new culture and deny their heritage

• hunt for the new Americans

• build sod houses

Immigrants in America were forced to

• move to reservations

• work for lower wages

• explore the west

• build sod houses

What made transportation easier?

• railroads

• new wheels for wagons

• westward expansion

• Lewis and Clark

This made delivering the mail faster.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Westward Expansion

• the Pony Express

• Sod Houses