Manifest Destiny Quiz

The Louisiana Purchase __________ the size of the United States.

• tripled

• doubled

• shrunk

• did nothing

Thomas Jefferson sent __________ to explore the newly purchased territory.

• Tom and Jerry

• Sacagawea and Zebulon Pike

• Lewis and Clark

• Washington and Franklin

The right and the duty of Americans to spread across North America and reach the Pacific Ocean is known as what?

• American Destiny

• Manifest Dream

• American Policy

• Manifest Destiny

Who served as a guide to Lewis and Clark's expedition?

• Sacagawea

• Pocahontas

• Princess Elsa

• Princess Anna

Brigham Young led which group to Great Salt Lake?

• 49ers

• Exodusters

• Rail workers

• Mormons

Name given to former slaves escaping the South for farming in the Midwest.

• 49ers

• Scalawags

• Exodusters

• Pilgrims

“Custer’s Last Stand" where Lakota Sioux & Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse defeated US cavalry.

• Wounded Knee

• Dawes

• Black Hills

• Little Big Horn

1868 agreement with the Sioux Nation that promised tribes the sacred Black Hills.

• Treaty of 1868

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Grand Star Treaty

American policy of forcing American Indians to adopt American customs.

• Assimilation

• Melting Pot

• Mingling

• Composing

Empresario from Virginia who was granted he right to start a colony in Mexico.

• James K. Polk

• Stephen F. Austin

• Andrew Jackson

• Antonio López de Santa Anna