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Westward Expansion

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of the treaty that ended the war between Britain and the United States?

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Treaty of London

d)

Oregon Trail

2.

What was the law that required all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River?

a)

Proclamation of 1763

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Oregon Territory

d)

Mexican Cession

3.
Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to
a)
obey the Book of Mormon
b)
prosper in the fur trade
c)
seek out religious freedom
d)
gold
4.
What is the territory identified in the picture the U.S. acquired in 1819? 
a)
Florida Purchase
b)
Thirteen Colonies
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Oregon County
5.
What is the territory the U.S. acquired in 1848 identified in the picture? 
a)
Florida Purchase
b)
Thirteen Colonies
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Oregon County
6.
The territory the U.S. acquired in 1846 that settled a boundary dispute at the 49th parallel with Britain identified in the picture? 
a)
Florida Purchase
b)
Thirteen Colonies
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Oregon County
7.
Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size. 
a)
Texas Annexation 
b)
Louisiana Purchase
c)
Northwest Territory
d)
Mexican Cession
8.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
Monroe Doctrine 
c)
Great Awakening 
d)
Louisiana Purchase
9.

What piece of land was purchased in 1853 in order to build something in the South? What did they want to build?

a)

Mexican Cession/Trails

b)

Louisiana Territory/Canals

c)

transcontinental/Oregon Country

d)

Gadsden Purchase/Railroad

10.
The primary goal of manifest destiny was
a)
End slavery in the new territories
b)
removal of European influence from South America
c)
expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean
d)
secession of southern states from the nation
11.

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

a)

a dispute over the number of settlers in the Oregon Territory

b)

issues arising over the boundaries of Texas (border dispute)

c)

the discovery of gold in California

d)

the relocation of American Indians from the Southeast

12.

Before becoming part of the US this territory was claimed by

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Britain

13.

Which of these would be an Economic Motive For Manifest Destiny Policies?

a)

New Markets, inexpensive farmland, gold

b)

religious persecution, spreading faith

c)

security and spreading of democracy

14.

What was the main reason Chinese immigrants came to America?

a)

to experience the wagon trail

b)

to search for Gold in California

c)

to help America fight Mexico

15.
List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.
a)
mountains
b)
crossing rivers
c)
the great plains
d)
all of the above
16.
Which of the following was a social effect of westward expansion on the Native Americans?
a)
NA could not get enough supplies and this lef to poverty
b)
NA were forced to live on reservations, which separated from white pioneers
c)
NA could no longer access the rich mineral deposits found in the Black Hills
d)
NA culture became widely accepted by white settlers
17.
The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as
a)
The Great Expansion
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Oregon Fever
d)
The Monroe Doctrine
18.
What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?
a)
Indian Removal Act
b)
Civillization ACt 
c)
Manifest Destiny Act
d)
Indian Territory Act
19.
Which best describes Manifest Destiny?
a)
Caused everyone to get along better
b)
expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific
c)
Idea started in the 1600s
d)
The king said that we had to the right to move west
20.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
a)
All NA had to move to Europe
b)
All NA had to move to Canada
c)
all NA east of the Mississippi are forced to move to a territory in Oklahoma
d)
All NA west of the Mississippi River had to move to Oklahoma
21.
What did the westward expansion offer for former slaves?
a)
food
b)
wealth
c)
land
d)
a new beginning and freedom
22.
During the 1800s, people flocked to the West in search of gold.  They often created towns near gold mines.  What is the name given to these towns? 
a)
Boom towns
b)
Ghost towns
c)
Plantations
d)
Shantytowns
23.
Why were the treaties between the Native Americans and the U.S. government not honored?     
a)
Native Americans broke their promise not to farm
b)
Chinese immigrants sided with the U.S. government
c)
Gold was found on the Native American Reservations
d)
Reservations had fertile farmland that settlers wanted
24.
Which territory did we buy from France that doubled the size of our nation?
a)
Texas
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
California
25.
Which area in America was gold found in that gave people all over the world "gold fever" in 1848?
a)
Texas
b)
Louisiana
c)
Oregon
d)
California
26.
Which of the following territories did we gain from Spain in 1819 through the signing of a treaty?
a)
Florida
b)
Texas
c)
Louisiana
d)
Oregon
27.
Which of the following territories did we win last in 1848 from Mexico after fighting a war?
a)
Florida
b)
Louisiana
c)
California
d)
Oregon
28.
Which two men are famous for their expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
a)
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
b)
Meriwether Lewis and James Madison
c)
William Clark and Thomas Jefferson
d)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
29.
What was the name of the time period where people from all over flocked to California in search for gold?
a)
The Gold Rush
b)
The Gold Movement
c)
Goldilocks
d)
Gold Gathering
30.
Which of the following territories was owned by Spain and mexico before we owned it?
a)
Oregon
b)
Florida
c)
Louisiana
d)
Texas
31.
Which of the following territories was given to us by the British in 1846 which gave America its border at the 49th  parallel?
a)
Oregon
b)
Florida
c)
Louisiana
d)
Texas
32.
Which of the following inventions from the early 1800s made the transportation of people and goods across rivers and canals much faster and easier?
a)
Steamboat
b)
Steam Locomotive
c)
Air Plane
d)
Telegraph
33.
Which of the following territories became its own independent nation before joining America in 1845?
a)
Oregon
b)
Florida
c)
Lousiana
d)
Texas
34.
Which President paid the two famous explorers to search and map the new Louisiana territory?
a)
James Madison
b)
John Adams
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
George Washington
35.
Which of the following inventions from the early 1800s made the transportation of raw materials and goods over land much faster and easier?
a)
Steamboat
b)
Steam Locomotive
c)
Bus
d)
Car
36.
President Andrew Jackson offered to pay for Native American land and give them more land west of the Mississippi River if they would leave.  What was this process called?
a)
Americanization Policy
b)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
c)
Westward Expansion
d)
Land Trade
37.
As a result of Westward Expansion, what tragic event took the lives of over one third of the Native American people as they moved to Indian reservations?
a)
The Trail of Tears
b)
The War for Independence
c)
The French and Indian War
d)
The War of 1812
38.
What was the purpose of the steel plow
a)
to till the hard packed ground
b)
to bring scarce water to the surface
c)
to pick cotton grown in the west
d)
to increase the speed of the railroad
39.
Where did the government put Native Americans when they took their land? 
a)
hotels
b)
the East Coast
c)
Mexico
d)
Reservations
40.
Immigrant labor helped build the transcontinental railroad. Most of these immigrants came from what country?
a)
England
b)
Germany
c)
China
d)
United States
41.
Which of the following was a reason the transcontinental railroad needed to be built?
a)
to carry tons of gold to the cities
b)
to connect Canada and Mexico
c)
to make a faster route to the West
d)
to deliver Chinese immigrants to the East Coast
42.

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793. What change did this lead to for owners of cotton plantations in the South?

a)

they needed more slaves

b)

they did not need as much land

c)

they did not need as many slaves

d)

they were able to grow other crops

43.

The demand for arable land in Georgia, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice felt toward America Indians are linked because all these factors provoked (lead to, give rise to) :

a)

Monkey trials

b)

March to the Sea

c)

Yazoo land Fraud

d)

Trail of Tears

44.

Who was the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation at the time of the Trail of Tears?

a)

John Ross

b)

William McIntosh

c)

Seqouyah

d)

Andrew Jackson

45.

The cotton gin was a machine that _________.

a)

removed seeds from cotton fiber

b)

wove cotton into clothing

c)

easily extracted cotton from the plant

d)

allowed farmers to plant cotton and a quicker rate.

46.

This advancement allowed a part of a machine or device to be replaced by another, identical part

a)

cotton gin

b)

interchangeable parts

c)

canal

d)

spoils system

47.

Changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in large factories

a)

The American Revolution

b)

The Industrial Revolution

c)

Shark Tank

d)

The Era of Good Feelings

48.

Fortune seeker who came to California during the Gold Rush of 1849

a)

Forty-sixers

b)

Forty-niners

c)

Fifty-niners

d)

seventy-sixers

49.

The 7th president of the United States; known for the infamous "Indian Removal Act"; can be found on the $20 bill.

a)

Martin Van Buren

b)

John Quincy Adams

c)

William Henry Harrison

d)

Andrew Jackson

50.

A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.

a)

pioneer

b)

forty-niner

c)

settler

d)

colonist

51.

A historic route/trail in the United States that connected Missouri River to the valleys in Oregon

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

The Oregon Trail

c)

The Louisiana Trail

d)

The Northwest Passage

52.

A Native American member of the Shoshone tribe who served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Squanto

d)

Tecumseh

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