Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz

What is a short, catchy phrase used to express an idea or opinion?

• Slogan
• Route
• Patent
• Siege

What do you call a person who takes risks to organize resources and produce new or better goods or services, hoping to gain a profit?

• Prospector
• Entrepreneur
• Conquistador
• Frontiersman

What is the term for joining or adding territory?

• Import
• Export
• Annex
• Impressment

What do you call an explorer searching for gold, oil, minerals, or other valuable substances?

• Pioneer
• Prospector
• Frontiersman
• Conquistador

What is a man-made waterway used to carry ships or irrigate crops?

• Route
• Reservation
• Canal
• Frontier

What term describes the United States' addition of territory and migration of people to the west during the 19th century?

• Annex
• Westward expansion
• Voluntary exchange
• Impressment

What do you call a soldier during the 16th and 17th centuries who defeated indigenous peoples in the Americas and took their land for Spain?

• Pioneer
• Frontiersman
• Conquistador
• Prospector

What is the term for trading willingly in a way that benefits both sides?

• Voluntary exchange
• Export
• Import
• Annex

What do you call a person who is among the first to settle in an unsettled area?

• Prospector
• Pioneer
• Frontiersman
• Entrepreneur

What is the term for how efficiently something can be made, or the rate of output per unit of input?

• Productivity
• Patent
• Siege
• Skirmish