WorksheetsUnit 8: Westward Expansion
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What college football team, from the SEC, underachieved and had a disappointing season, and should find a new coach?
a)
Hidden Valley Titans
b)
Virginia Tech Hokies
c)
Dallas Cowgirls
d)
Tennessee Volunteers
2.
By 1860, 50,000 people traveled along the __________ to farm the fertile lands of the Northwest.
a)
Oregon Trail
b)
Santa Fe Trail
c)
Southwest Trail
d)
Northwest Passage
3.
What increased the productivity (harvesting ability) of the American wheat farmer?
a)
cotton gin
b)
sickle
c)
reaper
d)
tractor
4.
Who was a leader in the women's rights movement AND helped plan the first meeting of the Women's Suffrage Movement?
a)
Sojourner Truth
b)
Abigail Adams
c)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d)
Harriet Tubman
5.
Who led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
John C. Calhoun
d)
Harriet Tubman
6.
The United States and Great Britain divided what northwestern land at the 49th latitude line after signing a treaty?
a)
California Territory
b)
Oregon Territory
c)
Missouri Territory
d)
Louisiana Territory
7.
After the War with Mexico, what land did America get from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
a)
Louisiana Territory
b)
Oregon Territory
c)
Florida Territory
d)
California and the Southwest Territory
8.
Who invented the reaper?
a)
Robert Fulton
b)
Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson
c)
Eli Whitney and Jo Anderson
d)
Ben Franklin
9.
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Jo Anderson
c)
Cyrus McCormick
d)
Robert Fulton
10.
Which group stated "all men and women were created equal"?
a)
Slave Owners
b)
Abolitionist Movement
c)
Suffragist Movement
d)
War Hawks
11.
The Oregon Trail ran from?
a)
Independence, Missouri to Oregon
b)
Independence, Missouri to Utah
c)
Maryland to California
d)
Ohio to Louisiana
12.
At the beginning of western migration, which invention provided faster land transportation?
a)
horses
b)
steam locomotive
c)
steamboats
d)
National Road
13.
What type of transportation was able to connect Southern plantations to Northern industries and Western territories?
a)
steamboats
b)
wagon trains
c)
Erie Canal
d)
Oregon Trail
14.
What was a secret trail to help escaped slaves travel to the North for freedom?
a)
Santa Fe Trail
b)
Erie Canal
c)
Underground Railroad
d)
Oregon Railroad
15.
What were women denied by society?
a)
right to vote
b)
college education and opportunities in business
c)
owning land
d)
all of the choices
16.
The U.S. got Florida by signing the Adams-Onis Treaty with _________.
a)
Spain
b)
France
c)
Mexico
d)
Russia
17.
The Santa Fe Trail ran from ___________.
a)
Houston, Texas to Portland, Oregon
b)
San Antonio, Texas to Mexico city, Mexico
c)
Wheeling, Virginia to Santa Fe< Mexico
d)
Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
18.
Americans transported ____________ on the Santa Fe Trail.
a)
manufactured goods
b)
cattle
c)
cotton
d)
coal
19.
Name the abolitionist who wrote the North Star newspaper.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Eli Whitney
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Susan B. Anthony
20.
Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator?
a)
Robert Fulton
b)
Jo Anderson
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Harriet Tubman
21.
In 1845, the U.S. added what slave state that had been an independent republic for 9 years?
a)
Texas
b)
Florida
c)
Oregon
d)
Maine
22.
The steamboat was improved by which entrepreneur?
a)
Eli Whitney
b)
Jo Anderson
c)
Cyrus McCormick
d)
Robert Fulton
23.
Who was an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all people?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
John C. Calhoun
c)
Henry Clay
d)
Susan B. Anthony
24.
Which is a form of cheaper and faster transportation?
a)
trains
b)
canals
c)
steamboats
d)
all of the choices
25.
Which were faster and cheaper forms of water travel?
a)
steamboat and Erie Canal
b)
steam locomotives and trains
c)
steam trains and wagons
d)
sailing ships and ironclads
26.
What describes the society of the South?
a)
farming, slaves, and plantations
b)
factories, cities, and businesses
c)
frontier, wilderness, wagon trains
d)
missions, natives, Christianity
27.
Abolitionists demand the immediate freeing of slaves because they felt it was ____________.
a)
morally wrong
b)
cruel & inhumane
c)
violated the principles of democracy
d)
All of these
28.
What divided the land beneath Missouri making any land to the south future slave states and any above future free states?
a)
Adams-Onis Treaty
b)
Louisiana Purchase
c)
Proclamation Line
d)
Missouri Compromise
29.
Who explored the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean for President Jefferson?
a)
Crockett and Bowie
b)
Gibbons and Ogden
c)
Pike and Tyler
d)
Lewis and Clark
30.
Which was not a reason to migrate west?
a)
crowded eastern states
b)
sell manufactured goods in Oregon
c)
logging, farming, freedom for runaway slaves
d)
availability of cheap, fertile land
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