American Land Obsession Quiz

What made George Washington reconsider his allegiance to the British Empire?

• He didn't like they had treated the rest of their empire.

• He didn't agree with their decision to close the territories west of the Appalachian Mountains

• He felt like he should have been promoted to general of the British Army

• He disagreed with their treatment of Native Americans

What did land symbolize to generations of Americans?

• Money

• Happiness

• Freedom

• Opportunity

What was the biggest issue the American settlers ran into while trying to settle the Ohio River and Mississippi River Valleys?

• lack of water

• Native Americans

• Distance from towns

• poor soil

According to Benjamin Franklin, the American population would double every how many years?

• 20

• 5

• 100

• 40

How much did Thomas Jefferson pay to purchase Louisiana?

• $20 Million

• $15 Million

• $100 Million

• $1 Billion

What impact did the abundance of land have on voting in the United States?

• Nothing changed

• More white men we able to vote

• There became an abundance of polling locations for the few people who could vote to vote

• Women were given the right to vote

Who was president when Texas joined the United States?

• George Washington

• John F. Kennedy

• James Polk

• Andrew Jackson

The idea that the United States should stretch across the entire continent is known as what?

• The Great Frontier

• Manifest Destiny

• Imminent Domain

• Sea to Shining Sea

Who was the president that claimed we must explore the "New Frontier" while he was president?

• George Washington

• James Polk

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon Johnson

What was one reason why the United States did not grow north or south the same way that it grew west?

• The issue of how to decide what states were free or which states were slave states

• Canada defeated us in the Canadian War

• We knew that our military wasn't strong enough to defeat Mexico

• President Washington said that there was nothing worth having in Canada