Westward Expansion

What is a Tejano?

• A style of music that pioneers listened to
• A Mexican settler in Texas
• The name of the fort in Texas

What was the Alamo?

• The train that traveled through Texas
• A city in Texas
• A fort that was used by the Americans

Who did President Thomas Jefferson send to explore the land of the Louisiana Purchase?

• Washington and Adams
• Madison and Monroe
• Lewis and Clark
• John Smith and John Rolfe

When President Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory, how did that change our country?

• More people to feed
• Doubled the size of our country
• Started a war
• Got Jefferson fired.

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above

What would make the best title for this image?

• Monroe Doctrine
• The Industrial Revolution
• Attack of the 50 foot Woman
• Manifest Destiny

The belief that the U.S. was meant to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific is known as:

• the Monroe Doctrine
• The Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny
• The Jackson Action

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CCSS.RL.8.9

To Annex land means to:

• take it over
• conquer it
• give it up to another country
• buy it

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CCSS.RL.6.4

Which of the following is true about the Louisiana Purchase?

• James Monroe bought it
• It doubled the size of the U.S.
• We bought it from Spain
• All of these are true

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Lewis and Clark were sent by President Jefferson to:

• invade Mexico
• stop British attacks on U.S. ships
• explore Louisiana
• buy Louisiana