USH Quiz - Western Expansion

What dangers did the terrain pose to settlers on the Oregon Trail?

• Heat from plains, dehydration from deserts, drowning from lakes and rivers

• Heat from plains, injury and loss from fording rivers, storms in mountains

• Rock slides from badlands, "snow madness" from mountains, starvation from plains

• Heat from plateaus,

  rock slides from mountains, electric storms in prairie

Which of the following was NOT a disease that plagued the Oregon Trail

• Cholera

• Dysentary

• Typhoid Fever

• Consumption

Where did most Cholera and Dysentary outbreaks come from?

• Stored water from the wagon trains, which had become stale

• Stagnant water in ponds and lakes that the settlers tried to drink from

• Springs and rivers that the settlers forded

• Water given to them by Native Americans

What was the name of the shortcut that the Donner party attempted to take across the Sierra-Nevada range?

• Hastings Pass

• Lansford Trail

• Hasting's Cutoff

• The Mormon Trail

How many people were in the Donner party?

• 70

• 21

• 93

• 87

What were several ways that Andrew Jackson expanded executive power? (Choose more than 1)

• He suspended congress

• He overused his veto power

• He used the army to enforce his tariffs

• He dueled all his political opponents

• He used the "spoils system" to give his friends government jobs

Why were the "Five Civilized Tribes" removed from their lands?

• The US government wanted their lands for army bases

• The US government wanted their lands for gold and crops

• The US government wanted their lands for settler homesteads

• The US government wanted their lands for National Parks

Which tribe was NOT part of the "Five Civilized Tribes" that were removed from their lands?

• Cherokee

• Cree

• Lakota

• Chickasaw

What were ways that Cherokees had attempted to assimilate into Anglo-American culture? (Choose more than 1)

• They converted to Christianity

• They took English names

• They industrialized tribal economies

• They adopted black slavery

• They grew cash crops like cotton

What do Mormons believe about Joseph Smith?

• He was a prophet who had direct access to God

• He had found the Book of Mormon on gold plates

• He had a vision of God and Jesus when he was 14

• All of the above