Westward Expansion (Mason)

People who flocked to CA looking for gold became known as

• Gold Miners

• Gold Rushers

• Forty-Niners

• Jayhawks

Most wagon trains left from

• Omaha, Nebraska

• Dallas, TX

• Ft. Dodge, KS

• Independence, MO

California gold was first discovered near

• Sutter's Mill

• Wal-Mart

• Donner's Mill

• The Alamo

Which of the following trails was NOT used during WESTWARD expansion?

• Frontier Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

Americans' belief that the US was mean to spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was called

• Manifest Destiny

• The Gold Rush

• The Monroe Doctrine

The average time it took settlers to moves west to the Oregon Territory along the Oregon Trail was

• 6 months

• 6 weeks

• 4 months

A prairie schooner was

• a boat

• a covered wagon

• a sod house

Americans defended the Alamo during the

• Civil War

• Gold Rush

• Fight for Texas independence

The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War was the

• Treaty of Mexico City

• Treaty of California

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

While traveling on the Oregon Trail, you were LEAST likely to encounter which danger?

• cholera

• flash floods

• getting run over by a wagon