Westward Expansion Common Assessment 2024

1. What is the name of the territory in white on the map?

• a. The Northwest Ordinance
• b. The Oregon Territory
• c. The Mexican Cession
• d. The Louisiana Purchase

2. What major effect did this territory have on the United States?

• a. It doubled the size of the United States
• b. It decreased trade for the United States
• c. It created a new war for the United States
• d. It tripled the size of the United States

Thursday, April 4th, 1805. The day is clear and present, though the wind is high from N.W. We now packed up in different boxes a variety of articles for the president, which we shall send in the barge. They consisted of a stuffed male and female antelope with their skeletons, a weasel, three squirrels from the Rocky Mountains, the skeleton of the prairie wolf, those of the white and gray hare, a male and female blaireau, or borrowing dog of the prairie, with a skeleton of the female, two borrowing squirrels, a white weasel, and the skin of the louservia, the horns of the mountain ram, or big-horn, a pair of large elk horns, the horns and tail of the black-tailed deer, and a variety of skins, such as those of the red fox, white hare, martin, yellow bear obtained from the Sioux; also, a number of articles of Indian dress, among which was a buffalo robe. . . 3. A historian could best use this information to study which topic?

• a. Findings from the Adams-Onis Treaty.
• b. Discoveries from Lewis and Clark’s expedition.
• c. Results of the Monroe Doctrine
• d. Enforcement of the Proclamation of 1763

4. The trend in the value of foreign trade depicted on the graph is best explained by the

• a. Alien and Sedition Acts
• b. Embargo Act of 1807
• c. War of 1812
• d. French and Indian War

5. Which of the following was NOT a cause of the War of 1812?

• a. Impressment of sailors
• b. The embargo on Great Britain
• c. British occupied forts
• d. The burning of Washington D.C

6. One result of the War of 1812 was that the United States

• a. took control of Cuba
• b. gained land from Canada
• c. maintained its independence from Great Britain
• d. defeated Spain

7. Which of the following was a foreign policy proclaimed by the United States in 1823 that said that European powers do not belong in the Americas?

• a. Manifest Destiny
• b. Monroe Doctrine
• c. Madison Appeal
• d. Jefferson Embargo

8. Which project, completed in 1825, resulted from Governor DeWitt Clinton’s plan to link the Hudson River to the Midwest?

• a. National Road
• b. Champlain Canal
• c. Erie Canal
• d. Hoover Dam

9. What is the best conclusion based on the map to the right?

• a. The construction of the canal led to the creation of other canals.
• b. The canal system developed in Boston.
• c. The canal system took ten years to build.
• d. The canal system led to the development of the interior of Ohio.

10. The Erie Canal was significant for early America because it

• a. provided vital irrigation for the farmlands in the northern territories.
• b. aided the rebels in transporting supplies and troops during the revolution.
• c. connected New York’s ports to the western interior for increased commerce.
• d. allowed ships to travel from the northern states to southern states quickly.