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Westward Expansion Unit Test Review

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8th Grade

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Westward Expansion Unit Test Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

POLITICAL motivations for westward expansion included the desire to spread American ___________ across the continent.

religion

democracy

language

mercantilism

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Members of what ethnic group were recruited in large numbers to work on the railroads and in the mines of the western United States?

Japanese

Chinese

Germans

Native Americans

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

What was the territorial acquisition that is PURPLE in the image called?

Annexation of Texas

Gadsden Purchase

Mexican Cession

Missouri Compromise

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Why was the small parcel of land known as the Gadsden Purchase acquired by the U.S.?

So the U.S. had access to the areas port cities

So the U.S. could build a rail line connecting Texas to California

So the U.S. could mine the gold found in the region

So the U.S. could admit another slave state into the Union

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What policy established the procedure for the admitting of new states into the U.S. that would be utilized during westward expansion?

Monroe Doctrine

Missouri Compromise

Northwest Ordinance

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

This slogan is associated with what president and what territorial acquisition?

Polk / Utah Territory

Polk / Oregon Territory

Jefferson / Louisiana Purchase

Polk / Annexation of Texas

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What was chosen as the dividing line for splitting the Oregon Territory between the U.S. and British-owned Canada?

38th parallel

Mason-Dixon Line

49th parallel

36 30"

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