Westward Expansion

Check all the examples of Manifest Destiny.

• Mexican American War

• Gold Rush

• Lewis and Clark

• School

After Lewis and Clark explored the west, President Jackson enforced this law....

• Indian Removal Act

• Indian Expansion Act

• 10th Amendment-states' rights

• Homestead Act

What was the Trail of Tears

• Students crying because of their grades all the way home

• Mexicans leaving land they once owned and going to Mexico City

• Native Americans leaving their homelands and moving to reservations in Oklahoma

• 49ers crying over lost gold

Who won the Battle of the Alamo in Texas?

• Mexico

• The United States

Click all that happened after the US lost the Battle of the Alamo.

• US won the Mexican American War and land west of Texas

• Gold Rush in California

• Pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail

• People traveled to Mars

Why were people against the Mexican American War?

• worried the Natives wouldn't have a home

• worried the Mexicans were going to take over the USA

• slavery would expand westward if the USA won

• None of these

What is an example of a hardship on the Oregon Trail?

• Weather

• Not knowing where I was going

• No food or water

• Sickness or disease

• All of the above

Check all the boxes that show a pro of the gold rush

• Development of California

• Get rich quick

• It was a long way to get there

• Mrs. Holm was alive and gave us a first hand account of what it was like to find gold.

A con of the gold rush was

• All the gold was already taken

• It was hard work to be a miner

• Population exploded and there was little to no resources (places to stay, food)

• All of the above

True or False: Westward Expansion and slavery happened at the same time in history (1800's)

• True

• False