Westward Expansion

What treaty ended the Revolutionary War and gave the USA its original boundaries?

• Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Paris

• Adams-Onis Treaty

What was the MAIN reason the government wanted Native Americans on reservations

• to keep them from starving

• to take their land

• to preserve the remaining buffalo

• to teach them new skills

The Indian Territory, to which the Cherokee were removed during the Trail of Tears, is the modern-day state of...

• California
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• New Mexico

Name of the law passed by Congress that allowed offered Native Americans money to move out of the Eastern USA?

• Proclamation of 1763

• Cherokee Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Native American Act

U.S. President who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ordering ALL Native Americans to be relocated west of the Mississippi River.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jeffersom
• James Madison
• Andrew Jackson

Settlers wanted the Native Americans to relocate so that the settlers could take the land for themselves.

• True
• False

When the Cherokee protested their removal, ____.

• .they decided to stay and fight
• the government gave them land in the Florida territory
• President Jackson met with them to find a peaceful solution
• President Van Buren sent the army to force them to move

____________ was the general and dictator of Mexico during the Texas Revolution

• Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna
• Sam Houston
• Stephen F. Austin
• Davy Crockett

Who did Texas fight for its independence?

• France
• Mexico
• Spain
• Great Britain

Whose election pushed forward the Annexation of Texas?

• Zachary Taylor
• John Tyler
• James K. Polk
• William Henry Harrison