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Chapter 9.2 QUIZ: The Louisiana Purchase

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This was the pioneer's way of traveling.

a)

By flat boats

b)

By horseback

c)

By Conestoga wagons

d)

By train

2.

What was the area west of the Mississippi River called?

a)

Toussaint-Louverture

b)

Northwest Territory

c)

Louisiana Territory

d)

New Orleans

e)

Texas

3.

This was a very important trade center on the Mississippi River.

a)

Toronto

b)

Philadelphia

c)

Louisiana Territory

d)

New Orleans

e)

Washington D.C.

4.

Leader of France who sold the Louisiana Territory to the US

a)

Toussaint Louverture

b)

Napoleon Bonaparte

c)

Louisiana Territory

d)

New Orleans

e)

Sacagawea

5.

Who led a revolt in Santo Domingo?

a)

Toussaint-Louverture

b)

Napoleon Bonaparte

c)

Merriweather Lewis

d)

York

e)

Sacagawea

6.

Who was the guide for Lewis and Clark?

a)

Toussaint Louverture

b)

Napoleon Bonaparte

c)

York

d)

Bob the Builder

e)

Sacagawea

7.

Who was York?

a)

A Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark

b)

One of Thomas Jefferson's advisors

c)

George Washington's personal enslaved man

d)
A slave and explorer in the Lewis and Clark expedition
8.

A change to the U.S. Constitution is a(n) ______

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Addition

c)

Amendment

d)

Alteration

e)

Precedent

9.

What is the term for the Supreme Court's right to determine if a law violates the Constitution?

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

House of Representatives

c)

Judicial Review

d)

The 1st Amendment

e)

Bill of Rights

10.

Can you guess the philosophy that Thomas Jefferson borrowed from the French?

a)

Laissez-faire

b)

Carpe Diem

c)

Judicial Review

d)

Marquis de Lafayette

e)

Bill of Rights

11.

Which group had to decide the presidential election of 1800?

a)

Electoral College

b)

House of Representatives

c)

Supreme Court

d)

US Senate

e)

the Cabinet

12.

The Constitution is the _________________

a)

Fastest Ship in the US's navy

b)

USA's birth certificate

c)

name of George Washington's home

d)

First 10 Amendments

e)

Supreme Law of the Land

13.

The principles of judicial review were established in _____

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

the Constitution

c)

the Bill of Rights

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

e)

the Declaration of Independence