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Westward Expansion: Dominant Narrative

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

What is the territory identified in the picture the U.S. acquired in 1819?

Florida Purchase

Thirteen Colonies

Mexican Cession

Oregon County

What is the territory the U.S. acquired in 1848 identified in the picture?

Florida Purchase

Thirteen Colonies

Mexican Cession

Oregon County

The territory the U.S. acquired in 1846 that settled a boundary dispute at the 49th parallel with Britain identified in the picture?

Florida Purchase

Thirteen Colonies

Mexican Cession

Oregon County

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size.

Texas Annexation

Louisiana Purchase

Northwest Territory

Mexican Cession

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

Manifest destiny

Monroe Doctrine

Great Awakening

Louisiana Purchase

What piece of land was purchased in order to build something in the South? What did they want to build?

Mexican Cession/Trails

Louisiana Territory/Canals

transcontinental/Oregon Country

Gadsden Purchase/Railroad

In 1846, war broke out between the United States and Mexico. What was the main cause of this war?

a dispute over the number of settlers in the Oregon Territory

issues arising over the boundaries of Texas

the discovery of gold in California

the relocation of American Indians from the Southeast

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

mountains

crossing rivers

the great plains

all of the above

Who was hired to explore the Louisiana Purchase?

Lewis & Clark

Christopher Columbus

Thomas Jefferson

The Dakota Tribe

10.

After the Revolutionary War, the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the _____________________ in the West

Pacific Ocean

Rocky Mountains

Mississippi River

Appalachian Mountains

11.

Texas is called the Lonestar State because

The settlers were very lonely

It was an independent nation with 1 star on its flag

Settlers could only see one star in the night sky

Lonestar was the name of its first governor

12.

Why did frontiersmen want to trap beavers?

To put in zoos

To keep as pets

To use their fur for clothing

To eat

13.

The San Francisco 49ers (football team) are named for all of the settlers moving to California in 1849 in search of

Gold

Beavers

Freedom

Land

14.

200 Texans were killed during a battle against the Mexican army at _____________________________. The Texans were fighting for independence from Mexico.

The Gadsen Purchase

The Alamo

The Oregon Trail

The Rio Grande

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Westward Expansion: Dominant Narrative

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

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