Western Expansion Pre- Assessment

Abolitionists felt that slavery was

• a justified way of life for Southerners

• a violation of the principles of democracy

• necessary for all Amercians

• part of the democratic process

What is the belief in "Manifest Destiny?"

• The expansion was for the good of the country and the right of the country

• A person's destiny is determined by how much land can be farmed

• Keeping America small and contained would lead to success

• African Americans were destined to remain slaves.

What invention increased the production of cotton which increased the need for slave labor to grow and pick the cotton?

• cotton gin

• reaper

• tractor

• cotton picker

What was the purpose of the suffrage movement?

• Free enslaved African Americans

• voting rights for women

• create slave states in the western territories

• equal rights for European immigrants

The availability of cheap, fertile land and knowledge of overland trails were both

• geographic factors that influenced the westward movement

• reasons for the success of the suffrage movement

• economic factors that kept people from moving west

• reasons why many southerners moved their plantations out west.

Someone who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit is called a(n).

• inventor

• settler

• surveyor

• entrepreneur

What is one basic right that most American women were denied in the 1800s?

• marriage

• educational opportunities

• freedom to travel

• trial by jury

What famous abolitionist leader wrote the Liberator and worked for the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?

• William Loyd Garrison

• Susan B. Anthony

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

Which western territory was divided by the United States and Great Britain?

• California

• Oregon

• Texas

• Louisiana

Which of the following was NOT an economic factor of the movement?

• California Gold Rush

• lack of western farmland

• logging

• freedom for runaway slaves