In 1803, Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River known as the __________

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican American Annex

• Mississippi Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

As a result of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States had control of _________________.

• the Ohio Country

• the Mississippi River

• the Rocky Mountains

• the Pacific Ocean

What was the name of the vision many American leaders had to extend the boundaries of the United States across North America?

• Project Manifest

• Manifest Destiny

• Land Destiny

• Land Privilege

Which was not a motivation for moving west?

• building relationships with American Indians

• land ownership

• natural resources

• gold

How did the government plan to fund a transportation system to the West?

• offering jobs to those who moved

• giving free land to those who moved

• offering to buy people’s homes so they could move

• selling land in large, inexpensive lots

Who was ignored or marginalized by the philosophy of Manifest Destiny?

• enslaved people and the Southern states

• immigrants and African Americans

• American Indians and immigrants

• American Indians and Spanish-occupied territories

The greatest dangers traveling across the country were _________?

• rivers and mountains

• buffalo stampedes

• snake bites

• diseases and lack of fresh water

What did America gain from the war with Mexico?

• land north of the Rio Grande

• land east of the Mississippi River

• land south of the Colorado River

• land west of the Rocky Mountains

What type of primary source is valuable to give information about life on the trail?

• newspapers and magazines

• letters home

• petroglyphs in the rock

• diaries and journals

Who made the most profit from the gold rush?

• the miners

• transportation companies

• trail companies

• merchants who sold equipment