Westward Expansion Unit Test

Name:

What did Sacagawea help with?

• Encouraged Thomas Jefferson to buy the Louisiana Purchase
• Helped the pilgrims grow food
• Helped guide Lewis and Clark while caring for her baby
• Was kidnapped and forced on the Trail of Tears

What word means "the belief in the God given right to move West"?

• Manifest Destiny
• Land Speculator
• Decree
• Ordinance

Many Americans moved west...

• to start a new life and economic opportunity
• to settle with the natives
• to switch from farming to agriculture
• to vote

Who was Texas fighting in the Texas Revolution? 

• The Spanish
• The Mexicans
• The Americans
• The British

Look on the map: Which area of land is the Mexican Cession (land Mexico lost in the Mexican-American war)?

• A
• F
• G
• D

The Mormons westward migration was unlike most of the other settlers, they travel west for?

• Economic gain (gold)
• Personal freedom (religion)
• the warmer weather
• the Great Salt Lake is a nice place to vacation

President Jackson sent soldiers to remove mostly which tribe and sent them on the Trail of Tears?

• Cherokee
• Iroquois
• Souix
• Red Hawks

Which group came from overseas to join the California Gold Rush?

• Russians
• Chinese
• Germans
• Gauls 

Why did the U.S. and Mexico go to war?

• All of these answers are correct
• The U.S. and Mexico disagreed over their boundary
• America's continued desire to achieve manifest destiny
• The U.S. recently annexed Texas