Westward Expansion

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

A town whose population grows very quickly is called a ____________.

• Pop town
• Fast  town
• Boomtown

What territory is represented by the E on the map?

• Louisiana Territory

• Oregon Territory

• Florida Acquisition

• Mexican Cession

The Homestead Act was when the United States gave away ___________ to settlers.

• lumber to build houses

• plots of land

• seeds to grow crops

• wagons to travel out west

What happened during the Gold Rush?

• People from all over the world moved to California

• Prospectors stayed in mining camps to explore an area and hunt for gold

• thousands of people panned for gold hoping to become rich

• all of the above

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

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

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

Which of the following would BEST describe the effect of the idea of the Manifest Destiny?

• American citizens should have the right to farm in the western U.S

• American women should be able to own their own property.

• America should extend from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean.

• All Native Americans should live west of the Mississippi River.

A religious group that went west to Utah to practice their religion freely

• Protestants

• Catholics

• Mormons

• Methodists