Westward Expansion

Which President enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

What nickname was given to the forced removal of Cherokee from Georgia?

• The Trail of Tears

• The U.S Indian Removal Act

• The Oklahoma Caravan

The United States acquired the Oregon Territory when —

• a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land

• Mexico sold the territory to the United States for $10 million 

• the territory’s settlers voted for annexation by the United States

• Russia sold the land to the United States for $7.2 million

True or False: More people struck it rich by finding gold, even small amounts, than with businesses and services for miners

• True

• False

___ was the belief that Americans should claim land from the east coast to the west coast of America.

• Manifest Destiny

• Manicure Destination

• Festive Destiny

• Destiny Manifest

What was the impact of the Louisiana Purchase?

• The Louisiana Purchase decreased the size of the United States by half.

• The Louisiana Purchase only gave the US a claim to the port of New Orleans. No other land was included in the purchase.

• The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.

• The Louisiana Purchase gave more land to the French.

What was the significance of the Oregon Trail?

• The Oregon Trail was used to travel eastward to open land that was less populated by settlers.

• The Oregon Trail was created to help Native Americans move to reservations.

• The Oregon Trail was used by settlers/pioneers who wanted to travel west for land/gold/religion.

• The Oregon Trail was used during the Revolutionary War to help the Americans defeat the British.

What was the significance of the Trail of Tears?

• The Cherokee tribe was allowed to keep their ancestral land and live in peace with the white settlers.

• The Cherokee tribe was moved farther east to make way for the settlers.

• The Cherokee willingly moved away from their ancestral lands to allow more room for the settlers.

• The Cherokee were removed by force of the US Government to reservations hundreds of miles away from their ancestral lands.

What were the major obstacles when traveling on the Oregon Trail?

• The Pacific Ocean, large deserts, rainforests

• Crossing rivers, bad weather, illnesses

• Friendly natives, too many forts, too much food

• The Great Wall of China, the Nile River, the Great Pyramids

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