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Westward Expansion

Authored by Stephanie Thompson

History

7th Grade

CCSS covered

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Westward Expansion
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What geographical obstacles did pioneers face while moving west?

Mountain ranges, rivers, and deserts  
Sickness or disease 
Fighting with Native Americans 
Bad weather or storms

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did most people travel to the west?

Boat
Horseback
Car
Covered Wagon

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What major river systems had to be crossed in order to move west? 

Snake River, Mississippi River, Columbia River, Missouri River
Nile River
Amazon River
Rio Grande

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?

Go to war with Native Americans
Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
Establish the sharecropping system
Make peace with the Native Americans

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the group of African Americans that settled in Nicodemus, Kansas? 

Missionaries
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Exodusters

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What two ethnic groups helped to build the transcontinental railroad?

Mexican Americans and Native Americans
Irish immigrants and Chinese immigrants
African Americans and European immigrants
Scottish immigrants and Japanese immigrants 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were the people that moved to California for the gold rush called "forty niners"?

There were 49 hundred of them
Most of them moved there in 1849
They traveled 49 miles to get to California

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