WorksheetsWestward Expansion Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the person who wanted to acquire the Louisiana Territory?
a)
Lewis and Clark
b)
Thomas Jefferson
c)
Robert Livingston
d)
Napolean
2.
Who did the United States purchase the land from?
a)
Napolean
b)
Lewis and Clark
c)
Livingston
d)
Jefferson
3.
Which country owned the Louisiana Territory before the US?
a)
Africa
b)
England
c)
Mexico
d)
France
4.
What is the name of the big piece of land that Thomas Jefferson bought in 1803?
a)
Texas Territory
b)
Louisiana Purchase
c)
Mississippi Expansion
d)
Midwest Territory
5.
What is the name of the group that traveled with Lewis and Clark?
a)
The American Explorers
b)
Journey Men's Club
c)
The Dream Team
d)
Corps of Discovery
6.
Which port did Jefferson want to control?
a)
Savannah
b)
New Orleans
c)
Mexico
d)
Mississippi
7.
How much money did the US pay for the Louisiana Purchase?
a)
$10 million
b)
$12 million
c)
$15 million
d)
$100 million
8.
In 1836, shortly after Texas got it's independence, why did the U.S. antislavery movement see annexing Texas into the United States as controversial?
a)
Slavery was illegal at the time.
b)
Acquiring Texas would increase the number of slave states.
c)
Adding Texas was not a part of Manifest Destiny.
9.
Most gold miners struck it rich.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
What was the nickname for people who moved to California during the gold rush?
a)
Surfers
b)
Coasters
c)
Forty Niners
d)
Raiders
11.
Where was gold first discovered in California?
a)
Comstock Lode
b)
Sutter's Mill
c)
San Francisco
d)
Lowell Mills
12.
What was the most feared disease on the Oregon Trail?
a)
smallpox
b)
measles
c)
plague
d)
cholera
13.
Travelers moved west using what?
a)
cars
b)
planes
c)
wagons
d)
ship
14.
Where did the travellers of the Oregon Trail originally set out from?
a)
Nebraska
b)
Idaho
c)
Wyoming
d)
Missouri
15.
What was the name of the Native America girl that helped lead Lewis and Clark on their voyage?
a)
Lakota
b)
Pawnee
c)
Sacagawea
d)
Santee
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