Westward Expansion Review

What year did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase?

• 1800

• 1801

• 1802

• 1803

Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from:

• France

• Spain

• Great Britain

• Russia

The Louisiana Purchase cost:

• 10 Million

• 15 Million

• 20 Million

• 5 Million

True or False: The Lewis and Clark expedition was a government-funded trip to map the Louisiana Territory, keep track of new plants and animals, and find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean.

• True

• False

Lewis and Clark owe many instances of their survival to a young Native American woman named:

• Pochahontas

• Sacagawea

• Sitting Bull

• Shoshone

Which of the following were effects of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• Created positive relationships with Native Americans

• Discovered many new plants and animals

• Pushed the ideas of "Manifest Destiny" making people want to go west

• All of these things are true.

The Oregon Trail extended 2,000 miles between:

• Independence, Missouri and Oregon

• Oregon and California

• Missouri and Utah

• Missouri and California

True or False: Part of "Manifest Destiny" was spreading religion to the "uncivilized" Native American tribes.

• False

• True

Some major effects of the Oregon Trail on the United States was:

• Moved a large population West out of overcrowded cities.

• Killed a lot of people.

• Sped up the settlement of the American West.

• Both A and C

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny were NOT good for everyone. Who suffered due to these things?

• The white settlers

• the American Government

• The Native Americans

• Immigrants