Westward Expansion

True or False? Lewis and Clark successfully reached the Pacific Ocean?

• True

• False

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• An act that allowed Native Americans to move settlers off of their land

• An act that allowed the government to move the Native Americans off of land

• An act that allowed the Cherokees to stay in Virginia and the Carolinas but not in Georgia and Tennessee

• An act that the Native Americans wrote in hopes to protect their land from settlers

Why was the Cherokees journey called the Trail of Tears?

• A lot of Cherokees cried as they walked the 800 miles to Oklahoma

• The Cherokees began a war with the settlers for their land and lost so they were clearly upset

• As the Cherokees traveled to Oklahoma, many died from disease or harsh weather

• As the Shoshone tribe traveled to Georgia they lost a lot of tribe members in battle

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?

• Indian Removal Act
• Civillization ACt 
• Manifest Destiny Act
• Indian Territory Act

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• All NA had to move to Europe
• All NA had to move to Canada
• all NA east of the Mississippi are forced to move to a territory in Oklahoma
• All NA west of the Mississippi River had to move to Oklahoma

What would make the best title for this image?

• Monroe Doctrine
• The Industrial Revolution
• Attack of the 50 foot Woman
• Manifest Destiny

Which is the only state to have once been an independent country?

• Texas
• Colorado
• Oregon
• Arizona

The Mexican Cession is land that the United States took as a result of:

• annexation
• the War with Mexico
• a treaty with Britain
• the Mexican Revolution