Westward Expansion Quiz

A man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, especially a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early west.

• Mountain Man

• Join Occupation

• Prairie Schooner

• Forty-Niners

A term designamting the 1818 U.S.-British agreement regarding the sharing of the Oregon territory as being "Free and Open" to citizens of both countries for trade and commerce.

• Mountain Men

• Annex

• Joint Occupation

• Forty-Niners

A covered wagon used by the pioneers in crossing the North American Prairies.

• Prairie Schooner

• Join Occupation

• Annex

• Mountain Man

A prospector/miner in the California gold rush of 1849

• Forty-niners

• Mountain men

• Annex

• Prairie Schooner

To attach or add to something larger like a territory to a country.

• Annex

• Forty-Niners

• Prairie Schooner

• Joint Occupation

Which area in America was gold found in that gave people all over the world "gold fever" in 1848?

• Texas
• Louisiana
• Oregon
• California

What was the name of the time period where people from all over flocked to California in search for gold?

• The Gold Rush
• The Gold Movement
• Goldilocks
• Gold Gathering

What were some of the reasons why pioneers started to move west?

• cheap farmland

• find gold & riches

• religious persecution

• economic opportunity

• all of the above

What caused the United States to acquire the Mexican Cession?

• it was part of the Louisiana Purchase

• it was part of the Annexing of Texas

• winning the Mexican War

• they bought the land from Mexico

What territory is represented by the C on the map?

• Texas Territory

• Florida Acquisition

• Louisiana Territory

• Mexican Cession