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WorksheetsWestward Expansion & Reform
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
Which President won his election based on the promise of Manifest Destiny?
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
James K Polk
Millard Filmore
Why did millions of Irish flee their country to come to America?
Potato famine
Civil War
Overpopulation
WW1
Who were TWO famous leaders of transcendentalism?
Santa Anna
Henry David Thoreau
James K Polk
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What did the Hudson River School artists focus their work on?
The harshness of slavery
Natural landscapes
Industrialization and factories
Women's reform
What group of immigrants left their country due to a civil war and seek new economic opportunities?
Irish
Chinese
Germans
Mormons
Why did Mormons relocate to the deserts of Utah?
Better farmlands
Escape religious persecution
Escape slavery
Better industry
What group were some of the first leaders of the anti-slavery movement?
Mormons
Quakers
Native Americans
Germans
What caused the population of California to rapidly grow beginning in 1849?
Gold rush
Abolishing slavery
Agricultural inventions
Gadsden purchase
What group/movement focused on ending the consumption of alcohol?
Abolition
Temperance
Whigs
Irish
Who was the leader of the public education movement?
James K Polk
Horace Mann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frederick Douglas
Who was the most prominent leader of the abolitionist movement?
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick Douglass
The religious movement that inspired a series of reforms in the U.S. was called:
Transcendentalism
Second Great Awakening
The Crusades
Temperance
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were prominent leaders in which movement:
Public Education
Abolition
Women's Rights
Public Education
Which territory did the U.S. gain in the northwest from Great Britain in 1846?
Florida
Texas
Oregon
Louisiana
Why did the U.S. spend $10 million on the Gadsden Purchase
To build a transcontinental railroad
To gain territory in Canada
To stop Britain from purchasing it
To help end slavery
What was the main cause of the Mexican-American war?
Disputes over slavery
Annexation of Texas
The purchase of Florida
The destruction of the Alamo
What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?
Transport goods and people more efficiently
Help the President travel around the country safely
Transport gold from mines
Help slaves escape to the north
The Donner Party and other pioneers traveling west ran into trouble with what geographic barrier?
Erie Canal
Atlantic Ocean
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi River
What was the purpose of the numerous reform movements in the U.S. during the 1800s?
Improve society
End agrarian culture
Stop the industrial revolution
End immigration
The idea of the US expanding from coast to coast over all North America is called:
Temperance
Abolition
Manifest Destiny
Coastal Dominance
The convention where nearly 300 women met to discuss their goal of equal rights was called:
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's Temperance Convention
New York Convention
Susan B. Anthony Convention
Which territory doubled the size of the US in 1803?
Texas
Oregon
Louisiana
Florida
The procedures for turning territories into states was set up with:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Northwest Ordinance
Treaty of Paris
Monroe Doctrine
What treaty resulted in the US acquiring the Mexican Cession territory?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Seneca Falls
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Ghent
The US acquired Florida from what country?
Spain
Britain
France
Germany
Dorothea Dix focused on reforming:
Prisons and mentally ill
Public education
Suffrage for women
Slavery
Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist who ran a newspaper called:
The Underground Post
The Liberator
The North Star
The Freedom Writers
The Daughters of Temperance and Women's Christian Temperance Union helped women:
Vote for the President
End slavery
Participate in social reform
Get better jobs
Fast growing communities, such as the ones that popped up during the California Gold Rush are called:
Popvilles
Communes
Boomtowns
Sudden cities
The group that left Independence, Missouri to head west and ended up losing 42 of 87 of their members along the way were called:
Donner Party
Cannibal Clan
Rocky Bunch
Hastings Party
Where did the Mormons end up settling in order to escape persecution?
Boulder, Colorado
San Diego, California
Washington D.C.
Salt Lake City, Utah
What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?
Relocate freed slaves to Liberia
Colonize new territories in South America
Help immigrants transition into America
Transport slaves from African to the US
What does emancipation mean?
To free or liberate
To invent
To drink little or no alcohol
To give the right to vote
One reason many northerners were hesitant to abolish slavery all at once was:
Feared the southern economy would compete with the north
Slaves weren't treated that bad
Feared war with the south
Abolitionist newspapers made a lot of money
Who was the leader of the Mormons?
Jane Doe
Edward Teach
John Smith
Woodes Rogers
