US History II: Westward Expansion Quiz

What were the physical features and climate of the Great Plains?

• Mountains

• Flatlands

• Land eroded by wind and water

• Frequent dust storms

• Low rainfall

What were three reasons for Westward Expansion?

• Desire for adventure

• Have autographs signed by cowboys

• New opportunities and new beginnings for former enslaved people

• Wealth

• Tour a Boom Town

What were three other reasons for Westward Expansion?

• The Homestead Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Native American population increasing

• Immigration of workers from China

• Hotels for more tourists

This innovation made travel westward quicker and more efficient in the 1800s

• Eisenhower Expressway System
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Oklahoma Sooners
• Gold Rush

The belief that Westward Expansion was a good thing, and the "God given right" to settlers for the US to stretch all the way to the Pacific Ocean:

• Articles of Confederation

• Indian Removal Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Direct Destiny

One effect of the Indian Removal Act was the __________________________.

• Supreme Court ruling that the Cherokee people did not have to move.

• forced removal of the Cherokee people from their land; called the Trail of Tears.

• treaty between the Cherokee people and the United States government.

• the U.S. government’s development of land in the west.

How did the development of the railroad, and the movement of settlers West impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

Which of the following terms is represented by this famous painting?

• Boom Towns

• Reservations

• Manifest Destiny

• Indian Removal Act

The law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for just $18:

• Pacific Railway Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

Which region of the United States was most directly affected by the passage of the Homestead Act?

• Great Plains

• Atlantic Coast

• Appalachian Mountains

• Rocky Mountains