Unit 7 Lesson 2 - Westward Expansion

Which one of the following religious groups had their own trail west to escape religious persecution?

(a)  

• Mormons
• Catholics
• Baptists
• Lutherans

Match the Groups to the correct reasons they moved West during Westward Expansion.

• To fur trade in newly acquired Oregon Territory.

• Miners (49ers)

• To convert Native Tribes to Christianity.

• "Mountain Men"

• To grow crops on cheaper land.

• Mormons

• To escape religious persecution.

• Homesteaders (Farmers)

• To mine gold in California.

• Missionaries

Answer explanation

Various Groups moved West for different reasons.

Most Important to Know

-> Miners moving to California because of the Gold Rush.

-> Missionaries moving West to convert Native Americans.

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8.11A

James Polk ran for President on the idea of ​ (a)   , which is seen in his campaign slogan: ​ (b)   This slogan meant that Polk believed that the U.S should acquire ​ ​ (c)   from ​ (d)   , even if they have to go to war. Luckily, President Polk didn't need to fight Britain after they ​ (e)   and came to a compromise.

• Manifest Destiny
• "54'40 or Fight!"
• Oregon Territory
• Great Britain
• negotiated
• California Territory
• Mormon Trail
• Eastward Expansion
• France

Answer explanation

James Polk believed in Manifest Destiny & wanted to acquire Oregon Territory from Britain.

Avoiding war, both sides negotiated & compromised: the U.S was given the Southern half of Oregon & Britain kept the North half.

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8.6B

Correctly match the numbered territory to its name.

• 5

• Louisiana Purchase from France.

• 8

• Oregon Territory from Britain.

• 4

• Texas Annexation

• 7

• Gadsden Purchase for railroads.

• 6

• Mexico Cession

Answer explanation

1 = 13 Colonies. This shouldn't be hard....

2 = Treaty of Paris. Land we got after beating Britain in the American Revolution.

3 = Florida. Land we got from Spain. Please stop confusing Mexico & Spain.

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8.11A

federal lands set aside for Native Americans

(a)  

• Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Reservations
• Manifest Destiny

the route to the Oregon Country used by wagon trains in the 1800s

(a)  

• Oregon Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Forty-niner
• Gadsden Purchase

the route that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from Illinois to Utah in the mid-1800s, in search of religious freedom and a new home in the American West

(a)  

• Oregon Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Forty-niner
• Gadsden Purchase

a term to describe one of more than 80,000 people who joined the California Gold Rush in 1849

(a)  

• Oregon Trail
• Mormon Trail
• Forty-niner
• Gadsden Purchase

Railroad workers were predominantly

• homesteaders

• miners

• immigrant workers, such as the Irish and Chinese, who accepted low wages

• former Civil War soldiers

Lewis and Clark had many goals that Jefferson gave them.  Which one was NOT accomplished? 

• Making peace with Natives 
• Locating the Northwest Passage 
• Gaining access to the Pacific 
• Scientific Exploration: plants and animals