Unit 3 - Westward Expansion

Who was John Marshall?

• U.S. President

• Virginia Governor

• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• U.S. Senator

What is the only thing higher than the Supreme Court in the federal government?

• the President

• Congress

• the Constitution

• the Governor of Virginia

Judicial review allows for ________?

• the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional

• Congress to hire judges

• the President to fire judges

• Virginia judges to change the Constitution

Worcester was  __________?

• a Cherokee man living in Georgia

• a Supreme Court Justice

• John Marshall's brother

• a white man living on Cherokee land

Where was the colony of Louisiana?

• North of the Mississippi River

• West of the Mississippi River

• East of the Mississippi River

• South of the Mississippi River

How did the U.S. get the Louisiana territory?

• the U.S. were the first to discover it

• the U.S. attacked France and took it

• the U.S. bought it from France

• the U.S. bought it from Spain

What was one effect of the Louisiana Purchase?

• the U.S. lost half its land

• the U.S. doubled in size

• Slavery became illegal in the U.S.

• the U.S. declared war with France

Who was Thomas Jefferson?

• the third U.S. President

• the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• the leader of France

• a Georgian Senator

In order to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, America wanted to take land away from Mexico and which other group of people?

• pioneers

• slaves & indentured servants

• Native Americans

• French

How did the idea of manifest destiny change the landscape of America?

• Native American territory expanded

• free settlers and slavery moved west

• colonists lost New England territory to the French

• the colonists lost territory to the Native Americans