WESTWARD EXPANSION

Which President made the Louisiana Purchase?

• Madison
• Adams
• Jefferson
• Monroe

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.

What year did the most miners rush to California?

• 1848
• 1849
• 1852
• 1853

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

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

What nickname was given to the forced removal of Cherokee from Georgia?

• The Trail of Tears
• The U.S Indian Removal Act
• The Oklahoma Caravan

Who were the 49ers?

• Gold miners
• Locals of California during the gold rush.
• Football tram
• The boom-town

What was the cause of a town becoming a ghost town?

• the gold runs out in the local mine

• the railroad moves its station away from the town

• both

• none of the above

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

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

What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?

• Indian Removal Act
• Civillization ACt 
• Manifest Destiny Act
• Indian Territory Act