Worksheets4th Grade SS Review ( Westward Expansion/ Civil War
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The country believed in Manifest Destiny. They thought it was our God-given right to claim all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. As the nation grew, we struggled to create laws that every state could agree on. This was during _____.
a)
Revolutionary War
b)
Westward Expansion
2.
The belief that it was our God-given right to claim all the land from sea to shining sea.
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Bill of Rights
c)
Man of Design
d)
Mainly our land
3.
He created the Wilderness Road, which led settlers to the frontier of Kentucky.
a)
Daniel Boone
b)
Lewis and Clark
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Seminole Indians
4.
They explored the lands we gained int he Louisiana Purchase.
a)
Daniel Boone
b)
Lewis and Clark
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Seminole Indians
5.
He explored the southwestern part of the United States. He has Pike's Peak named after him.
a)
Daniel Boone
b)
Lewis and Clark
c)
Zebulon Pike
d)
Seminole Indians
6.
This land gain doubled the size of the US, included all the land claimed by La Salle, and Thomas Jefferson paid France $15 million for it.
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Florida Purchase
c)
Texas Annexation
d)
Mexican Cession
7.
This land gain was bought from Spain for $5 million, this would keep Georgia's slaves from escaping and the Florida's Seminoles from attacking setters.
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Florida Purchase
c)
Texas Annexation
d)
Mexican Cession
8.
This land was gained through Texas settlers who won their independence from Mexico, they begged the US to make them a slave state for 9 years. We finally agreed in the name of Manifest Destiny, however, the decision upset our free states as well as angered Mexico.
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Florida Purchase
c)
Texas Annexation
d)
Mexican Cession
9.
We fought a war with Mexico to gain this land in the Southwestern part of the US. We won the war and paid them $ to gain these lands. This gave us gold in California, the Pacific ports, and completed Manifest Destiny in the Southwest.
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Florida Purchase
c)
Texas Annexation
d)
Mexican Cession
10.
For this land we signed a treaty with England. We encouraged people to move here by giving them land for FREE.
a)
Florida Purchase
b)
Texas Annexation
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Oregon Treaty
11.
There was to be NO slavery in the Ohio River Valley. (Northwestern territory) What was this law?
a)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas- Nebraska Act
12.
Missouri would join the Union as a slave state, Maine would be free. They created the 36' 30' line- lands above this line would be free, lands below this line would be slave.
a)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
13.
All the new states from land gained in the Mexican Cession would have to decide for themselves whether to be free or slave, the Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal to help runaway slaves.
a)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas- Nebraska Act
14.
This Act undid the Missouri Compromise, said that new staes would have to decide for themselves to be free or slave, many people with opposing views on slavery moved to Kansas to sway the vote in their favor, the area was called "Bleeding Kansas" due to all the fighting.
a)
Northwest Ordinance of 1878
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas- Nebraska Act
15.
Dred Scott was a a slave that sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state. Supreme Court said that he was not a citizen and had no right to a trial. This decision angered many people.
a)
Dred Scott
b)
Kansas- Nebraska Act
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Missouri Compromise
16.
The Northern and Southern states were very different. Many thought that they would be better off as two separate countries. The southern states began to break away, the northern states fought to keep the union together. Slavery was a huge dividing issue between the north and south.
a)
Revolutionary War
b)
Civil War
17.
The president was Jefferson Davis, General was Robert E. Lee, they wanted to keep slavery and they called themselves the Confederacy.
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
18.
Their president was Abraham Lincoln, General was Ulysses S. Grant, they did NOT want slavery in the United States, called themselves the Union.
a)
North
b)
South
c)
East
d)
West
19.
They were very outspoken and wanted to end slavery (Underground Railroad).
a)
Abolitionists
b)
Anti-abolitionists
c)
rioters
d)
slaves
20.
a speech made by Lincoln to free all slaves in the Confederate States.
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Gettysburg Address
21.
a speech made by Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg declaring that a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth."
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Gettysburg Address
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