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WorksheetsWestward Expansion
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In 1775, I opened the Wilderness Road to Kentucky. I crossed the Appalachian Mountains and established Boonesborough Fort. Who am I?
a)
Zebulon Pike
b)
Daniel Boone
c)
Lewis and Clark
d)
Meriwether Lewis
2.
I went exploring the Southwest two times. I discovered, but did not climb a mountain peak in Colorado. Who am I?
a)
Zebulon Pike
b)
Lewis and Clark
c)
William Clark
d)
Daniel Boone
3.
Our expedition mapped the territory from Missouri to Oregon Territory. We crossed the Rocky Mountains and reached the Pacific Ocean. Who are we?
a)
Zebulon Pike
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Daniel Boone
d)
Lewis and Clark
4.
This land was bought from France by Thomas Jefferson. It doubled the size of the United States.
a)
Annexation of Texas
b)
Oregon Treaty
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
5.
What was Thomas Jefferson’s idea of Manifest Destiny?
a)
We would all live in peace in the United States
b)
The United States would span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
c)
Our country would become the strongest country in the World.
d)
Everyone would have food and water.
6.
This land was purchased from Spain in 1819, for $5,000,000. It was important for the United States to purchase this land because Seminole Indians were raiding settlements in the United States and runaway slaves were using the area for escape. Which land acquisition is being described?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Annexation of Texas
c)
Florida Purchase
d)
Northwest Territory
7.
This area was explored by Lewis and Clark, but was claimed by four different countries. Eventually, a treaty was drafted to divide this land between Britain and the United States. The 49 ° parallel from the Pacific to the Rocky Mountains became the boundary line. What land acquisition is being described?
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Oregon Country
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Annexation of Texas
8.
This area was an independent republic for 9 years before becoming part of the United States. It was finally under control of the United States and this angered Mexico. The war lasted two years, but the United States took claim of this land. Which land acquisition is being described?
a)
Annexation of Texas
b)
Louisiana Purchase
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Florida Purchase
9.
Between 1838 and 1839, the U.S. Army forced about 15,000 Cherokees to travel about 1,000 miles to Indian Territory. Which event is being described?
a)
Trail of Tears
b)
Santa Fe Trail
c)
Oregon Trail
d)
Seminole Wars
10.
What were the three motives for moving West? Why did we want to move?
a)
Bigger land, more food, more water
b)
Manifest Destiny, economic opportunity, and rich farmland
c)
The Oregon Trail was fun to travel.
d)
Trees, sugar, and rivers
11.
Which change in slavery allowed California to enter as a free state and also included the Fugitive Slave Act?
a)
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
b)
The Compromise of 1850
c)
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
d)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
12.
Which legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in order to keep the number of free and slave states even?
a)
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
b)
The Annexation of Texas
c)
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
d)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
13.
Which legislation said that the states made out of the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan) could not have slavery? It was the first time that the national government took a stand against slavery and was motivated by the Declaration of Independence’s statement that “all men are created equal.”
a)
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
b)
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
c)
The Dred Scott Decision
d)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
14.
This legislation was an attempt by the Supreme Court to end the controversy over free and slave states. It said that slaves were the personal property of slave owners and that the government could not take slaves away from their owners. It said that the government could not limit slavery and slave owners could take their slaves wherever they wanted.
a)
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
b)
The Dred Scott Decision
c)
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
d)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
15.
“Bleeding Kansas” was the nickname given to this Act because both people that were against slavery and people that wanted slavery moved to this area to vote for their belief.
a)
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
b)
The Dred Scott Decision
c)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
16.
Andrew Jackson sold Cherokee land in Georgia and federal troops pushed 15,000 Cherokees out of their homes. The law passed in Congress that made these Indians move was known as the
a)
Seminole Wars
b)
Oregon Trail
c)
Indian Removal Act
d)
Trail of Tears
17.
Look at your map of the Land Acquisitions. For the test you will need to label them on a map.
a)
See map
b)
See map
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