WorksheetsQuiz Expansion/Jackson
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who Was President during The Mexican War?
a)
James K. Polk
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
George Washington
d)
John Q. Adams
2.
What is Manifest Destiny?
a)
The U.S. needed more slave states.
b)
It was fate that the U.S. would go to war with Mexico.
c)
The belief that the United States had a right given to them by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
d)
We should not move west.
3.
In what year did the California Gold Rush take place?
a)
1848
b)
1850
c)
1839
d)
1849
4.
What is the capital of TN?
a)
Memphis
b)
Chatanooga
c)
Knoxville
d)
Nashville
5.
How was America's dispute with Britain over the Oregon Country resolved or ended?
a)
We went to war and Britain won.
b)
The U.S. paid Britain for the Oregon Country.
c)
Britain paid the U.S. to take Oregon Country.
6.
Which was an economic advantage to Manifest Destiny?
a)
water
b)
Native Americans
c)
Land
d)
Fur
7.
The trails west were easy to travel?
a)
True
b)
False
8.
What do the early American settlers have in common with settlers traveling on the trails west?
a)
They were both afraid of the Indians.
b)
They were willing to risk everything for more land.
c)
They didn't like the British.
d)
They were all poor.
9.
Why did Brigham Young move the Mormans west to Utah?
a)
Religious freedom
b)
They wanted gold.
c)
To see if they could survive the journey.
d)
Great Salt Lake
10.
How did we gain the areas that are now NV, AZ, NM, and CA?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Adams-Onis Treaty
c)
Treaty of Paris
d)
Mexican Cession
11.
What document made slavery illegal in the Mexican Cession?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Treaty of Paris
c)
Wilmot Proviso
d)
Adams-Onis Treaty
12.
________ owned the mill where gold was first discovered in 1848.
a)
Tim Fullen
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Sequoyah
d)
John Sutter
13.
What were the people called that left home to find gold in CA?
a)
49ers
b)
Californians
c)
Texans
d)
Mexicans
14.
What is this?
a)
washing machine
b)
cotton gin
c)
first refrigerator
d)
motor
15.
Who invented the cotton gin?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Eli Whitney
d)
Francis Scott Key
16.
Jackson rewarded his supporters by giving them positions in the government. What is this called?
a)
Kitchen Cabinet
b)
Nullification System
c)
Spoils System
d)
American System
17.
John Q. Adams passed a tariff on imports that the south did not like. They threatened to leave the union. What did this result in?
a)
Bank of the U.S.
b)
Corrupt Bargain
c)
Nullification Crisis
d)
Spoils System
18.
Which tribe was part of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
a)
Cherokee
b)
Creek
c)
Seminole
d)
All of the above
19.
Who created an alphabet for the Cherokees?
a)
Sacagawea
b)
Squanto
c)
Pochohantas
d)
Sequoyah
20.
What crop saved Jamestown from certain death?
a)
corn
b)
cotton
c)
rice
d)
tobacco
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