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WorksheetsWestward Expansion Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who created the Wilderness Trail and established first US settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains
a)
Lewis and Clark
b)
Zebulon Pike
c)
Sacajawea
d)
Daniel Boone
2.
Who located and explored upper regions of the Mississippi River?
a)
Lewis and Clark
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Sacajawea
3.
Who explored the land Thomas Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase to map out a route and discover new plants and animals?
a)
Lewis and Clark
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Sacajawea
4.
A God given right to expand and claim land from coast to coast
a)
Nationalism
b)
National Pride
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Westward Expansion
5.
Sold for 15 million dollars
Doubled the size of the US
Doubled the size of the US
a)
Florida
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
Mexican Cession
6.
Spain sold to the US for 5 million dollars and a clear boundary between the Louisiana Territory and New Spain
a)
Florida
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
Texas
7.
Claimed from the explorations of Lewis and Clark
Britain also claimed the area
Britain also claimed the area
a)
Florida
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
Texas
8.
Was an independent country for 9 years US Congress annexed in 1844 when James K. Polk won the presidency
a)
Florida
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
Texas
9.
the territory the US got from winning the Mexican War
was wanted for the California ports and to fufil our Manifest Destiny
was wanted for the California ports and to fufil our Manifest Destiny
a)
Louisiana
b)
Florida
c)
Texas
d)
Mexico
10.
Allowed new lands to become territories and then eventually states and
outlawed slavery in new territory
outlawed slavery in new territory
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Kansas Nebraska Act
c)
Northwest Ordinance
d)
Compromise of 1850
11.
It provided land and money the president could use to make treaties with Native American tribes that agreed to leave their land and move west
a)
Indian Removal Act
b)
Kansas Nebraska Act
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Compromise of 1850
12.
What the journey was called when the Native Americans were forced to move from their homes
a)
Mexican Cession
b)
Indian Removal Act
c)
Trail Of Tears
d)
Fugitive Slave Act
13.
The Compromise prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory. Missouri was accepted as a slave state, at the same time Maine was accepted as a free state
a)
Kansas Nebraska Act
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Indian Removal Act
14.
The Compromise allowed California to be a free state and outlawed slave trade, but not slavery. Also allowed the rest of the land from the Mexican Cession to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state by voting
a)
Kansas Nebraska Act
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Dred Scot decision
15.
Allowed people in the territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty)
a)
Louisiana Compromise
b)
Kansas Nebraska Act
c)
Northwest Ordinance
d)
Dred Scot Decision
16.
Gave southerners more opportunity to have their escaped slaves caught and returned
a)
Kansas - Nebraska Act
b)
Fugitive Slave Act
c)
Compro,mis
d)
Missouri Compromise
17.
Supreme Court said African Americans weren’t citizens and therefore couldn’t sue o Also said slaves were property, had no rights at all and could be taken anywhere in the US
a)
Kansas Nebraska Act
b)
Dred Scot decision
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Indian Removal Act
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