American History Quiz

What law required Native Americans to move westward across the Mississippi River?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

• Gadsden Purchase

What is the best meaning of Manifest Destiny?

• The belief America should get rid of Slavery in the West

• The belief that America should move all Native Americans out of the United States

• The belief that the U.S. should control all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific

• The belief that Native Americans must give up all their weapons to U.S. Army

What word best describes adding another country on to our own country?

• Annex

• Nullification

• Appeal

• Ceded

Why were Americans interested in moving into Texas?

• Gold was discovered in 1848

• Missionary work

• Land for growing cotton

• Religious freedom

What famous phrase was used during Texas' war with Mexico to get more support?

• "Fifty four forty or Fight"

• "Remember the Maine"

• "I have not yet begun to fight"

• "Remember the Alamo"

What term would best describe the men who first went to the Oregon Territory to hunt and trap for fur?

• Mormons

• Mountain Men

• Forty Niners

• Missionaries

The Louisiana Territory was purchased for

• 100 million dollars

• 20 million dollars

• 15 million dollars

• 1 billion dollars

The United States got the land that became California, Arizona and Nevada because of

• an agreement with Britain

• the War of 1812

• the Mexican American War

• the Louisiana Purchase

During the Gold Rush most of the people that made money, did so by

• Selling supplies like shovels and food to miners

• Buying land and putting up homes to sell

• Growing cotton

• Finding large amounts of gold by panning in rivers

Which of the following was not a problem people travelling west would have to prepare for?

• Sickness

• Beavers

• Broken Wagons

• Indian Attacks