Unit 4 CBA -Westward Expansion

What were the effects of the Louisiana Purchase? Select TWO that apply.

• The United States doubled its Territory

• American farmers began shipping goods via the Mississippi River.

• France went to war against Great Britain.

• The United States gained a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

• It prevented the United State from expanding past the Appalachian Mountains.

What is Manifest Destiny?

• It was a war against France and Britain.

• The idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.  It was their “destiny” to travel to the west of the US for land.  

  
  

• It was the purchase of land.

• It was the conflict between Mexico and the US.

Which item in the painting above by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze best represents Manifest Destiny?

• The pine trees.

• The mountains.

• The men.

• The covered wagons.

Which of the following can be added to the above chart of causes of the War of 1812?

• The Boston Tea Party

• The American alliance with France

• The development of American manufacturing

• The border conflict with Nortwest Territory

Which of the following was an outcome of the War of 1812?

• Great Britain gave up hope of controlling the United States.

• "The Star Spangled Banner" became the national anthem.

• The White House was built as the new presidential residence.

• The United States became an independent country.

How did Robert Fulton’s most famous invention, the steamboat, contribute to westward migration?

It was the easier shipment of ______________ and people.

Which inventions or developments improved long-distance communication most?

• steamboats

• canals

• the National Road

• the telegraph

Which of the following items can be added to the chart?

• provided a land route from New York to the Midwest

• provided a cheaper means of shipping goods from the Midwest

• increased the amount of goods being shipped from the south to the north

• it helped with the picking of cotton

Which of the following was NOT an influence of American Settlers on Native American tribes?

• conversion to Christianity

• hunting for food

• Exposed them to new diseases

• use of guns

What was the goal of the Indian Removal Act?

• To give Native Americans free land.

• To negotiate a land swap with the tribes to move them westward.

• To move them to the US.

• To negotiate a land swap with the tribes to move them eastward.