Westward Expansion Quiz

After a War with Mexico, the United States received which territories?? (Hint: 2 Answers

• California

• Oregon

• Texas

• Florida

Match the image with the correct reason for Westward Expansion

• land ownership

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• possiblity of wealth

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• adventure

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Which of the following best represents the ideas associated with the visual?

• The spread of slavery should be outlawed north of Texas
• The U.S. government felt Native Americans could live in peace with the White population
• Americans believed it was their right to expand and possess the continent from ocean to ocean
• A majority of Americans wanted to make peace and avoid the conflict of the Civil War

settlement of the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory

victory in the Mexican-American War and acquisition of California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Texas

increased the land mass of the United States by approximately 1.2 million square miles

• James K. Polk

• Andrew Jackson

• Zachary Taylor

• Martin Van Buren

What did Manifest Destiny mean to 19th-century Americans?

• the belief that God had given the United States the right to all of North America

• the belief that native Americans had a right to all land West of the Mississippi River

• the belief that Mexico could expand further into North America all the way up to border with Canada

• the belief that the United States and Canada should divide North America so that each had an equal part

During the 1840's the factors in this diagram contributed to widespread support for which of the following?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Manifest Destiny
• The American System
• States' Rights

Which 1854 event resulted in about 30,000 square miles being added to the territory of New Mexico?

• Mexican Cession

• Texas Annexation

• the Gadsden Purchase

• the Louisiana Purchase

A man who lives and works in the mountains or wilderness, especially a frontiersman or pioneer, as in the early west.

• Mountain Man

• Join Occupation

• Prairie Schooner

• Forty-Niners

Which area in America was gold found in that gave people all over the world "gold fever" in 1848?

• Texas
• Louisiana
• Oregon
• California

A prospector/miner in the California gold rush of 1849

• Forty-niners

• Mountain men

• Annex

• Prairie Schooner