Western Expansion Quiz

The idea that god granted americans the right to take land in North America:

• Annexation of Florida

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Indian Removal Act

This event caused people to migrate in large amounts to California in 1849:

• Gold Rush

• Louisiana Purchase

• Transcontinental Railroad

• The Cherokee

This made the availability of beef easier for the american populations moving west:

• Transcontinental Railroad

• The Homestead Act

• Ranching Booms

• Manifest Destiny

The building of this helped to move people and supplies out west quicker than ever before

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Louisiana Purchase

• Ranching Booms

These people were negatively impacted by the American populations moving west:

• Ranching Booms

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• Native Americans

The law passed by Congress that forced natives in the Eastern U.S. out of their lands to Oklahoma Territory?

• Indian Removal Act

• Native Rights Act

• Indian Remote Law

• Native American Land Act

This president is responsible for the movement of native people out of their lands in the eastern United States:

• Joe Biden

• Andrew Jackson

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

This law allowed Americans to go west and get free land:

• The Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Ranching Booms

• Gold Rush

The purchase of this land doubled the land in the United States

• Louisiana Tewrritory

• Texas

• Florida

• Oregon

The Iron Horse:

• Gold Rush

• Andrew Jackson

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Rancher Booms