Manifest Destiny

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 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

Based on the chart below, between what years was the biggest decline in the Buffalo population?

• 1800-1889
• 1870-1889
• 1800-1837
• 1830-1854

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 as 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”

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 in 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