Western Expansion

What explorers were the first to travel from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific coast of Oregon?

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The Trail of Tears

• The Oregon Trail

The US government sent an expedition led by Lewis and Clark to gather information on the Newly Purchased land by Thomas Jefferson. What was this purchase named?

• The Texas Addition

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Alaska
  Territory

The United States government wanted to encourage the settlement of land out west. So, what did the federal government do to assist in this effort?

• The national government became allies with Mexico to open trade.

• The national government freed enslaved African Americans so they could settle the land.

• The national government forced thousands of native americans to leave their homes and live on reservations.

What were the two goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

• To learn about the geography

• To make friends and trade with Native Americans

• To create a path from Missouri to Oregon

• To find a water route to the pacific ocean

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad contribute to the settlement of the West?

• By providing people with access to essential goods.

• By raising money to build factories along the routes.

• By giving funds to local leaders to build schools.

• By establishing military forts along the routes.

The idea of America expanding from sea to shining sea (Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean) is called _____________________.

• American Exceptionalism

• My Business

• State's Rights

• Manifest Destiny

Who do historians consider the greatest Mountain Man? He explored more of the West, and collected more beaver pelts, than anyone else in the 1820's & 1830's. He also is credited with finding South Pass, a 12-mile gap in the Rocky Mountains that wagons could get through. (a)  

• Jedediah Smith

• Jim Beckwourth

• Hugh Glass

• Meriwether Lewis

Farming in the West was different from farming in the East in all of the following ways except that

• farm sizes in the east were too small for the economy.

• western farmers were businessmen first, then farmers.

• farmers in the West were not subsistence farmers.

• western farmers had an abundance of rain and fertilizers.

What was the primary purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

• To find a direct water route to the Pacific Ocean

• To establish trade with Native American tribes

• To claim land for the British Crown

• To study the flora and fauna of the American West

The United States acquired the ​ (a)   when a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land.

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Territory

• Florida Territory

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