Westward Expansion Quiz

What does this image represent?

• Manifest Destiny

• the Trail of Tears

• the Monroe Doctrine

• the Mormon migration

Which piece of evidence best supports the answer to Part A?

• the Native Americans fleeing

• the angelic figure headed west

• the new forms of transport technology shown

• the heavy clouds and mountains in the background

After gaining its independence from Spain, the Mexican government ________.

• offered to sell Texas to the United States

• immediately legalized the practice of slavery

• encouraged American settlers to move to Texas

• moved troops into areas claimed by the United States

Use the image to answer the question. This image is most closely associated with _______.

• Texas independence

• Mexican independence

• the Gadsden Purchase

• the settlement of Oregon

How did President James K. Polk provoke war with Mexico?

• He allowed slavery to be practiced in Texas.

• He ordered U.S. troops to cross the Nueces River.

• He ordered U.S. troops to attack the town of Santa Fe.

• He refused to buy California and New Mexico from Mexico.

Use the map to answer the question.

• the Oregon Treaty

• the Homestead Act

• the Indian Removal Act

• the Worcester v. Georgia case

• the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Which of the following groups settled in the West to escape religious persecution?

• the Californios

• the Exodusters

• the Forty-Niners

• the Mormons

Use the graph to answer the question. Which conclusion is supported by the graph?

• By 1850, California had become the wealthiest state in the Union.

• Most miners who traveled to California in search of gold became wealthy.

• The discovery of gold in California quickly increased the territory's population.

• The experience of migrants to California weakened Americans’ belief in Manifest Destiny.

Use the image to answer the question. This invention helped make which of the following obsolete?

• railroads

• telephones

• newspapers

• the Pony Express

How did the U.S. government help in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• The government gave 160 acres of free land to anyone who would settle on it and farm for at least five years.

• The government gave railroad companies a gift of ten square miles of land alongside each mile of track they built.

• The government raised taxes on American businesses and passed the revenue along to the companies building the railroad.

• The government passed the Indian Removal Act to force Native Americans off of land needed for the transcontinental railroad.