Western Expansion

This women helped guide and translate for the Lewis & Clark expedition.

• Rosa Parks
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Sacagawea
• Martha Washington

Buying this land doubled the size of the United States.

• The Louisiana Purchase
• Alaska
• Nebraska-Kansas Territory
• Cuba

These are motivations for pioneers to move West: Cheaper living, land, gold, religious freedom, new opportunities

• True
• False

These are risks of travelers moving West: Severe weather, illness, accidents/damage to wagon, chance of not making a living in the West. 

• True 
• False

This president gave Lewis and Clark the specific instructions to map the land and find a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

• Andrew Jackson
• Thomas Jefferson
• John F. Kennedy
• George Washington

Manifest Destiny is America's belief that they had the God Given right to move West no matter who or what was in the way. 

• True 
• False

pioneer

• One of the first people to settle in a place
• A person who makes pies for a living
• A person who joins a cause last
• A person who stays in their hometown forever

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

What president arranged the Louisiana Purchase?

• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington 
• Andrew Jackson
• William Henry Harrison

The US and Mexico agreed on the sale of this small piece of territory in 1854. This territory includes present day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase