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Westward Expansion Test Review

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is #5 on the map?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Oregon Territory

2.

Which is the correct order for the territories gained by the U.S. from first(gained) to last(gained)?

a)

Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Oregon, California

b)

Louisiana, Florida, Oregon, Texas, California

c)

California, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Oregon

d)

Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Oregon, California

3.

What is #3 on the map?

a)

Gained after a war with Mexico in 1853

b)

Jefferson Purchased this land from France in 1803

c)

Added to the U.S. after it became an independent republic

d)

Territory divided between the U.S. and Great Britain

4.

Territory divided by the United States and Great Britain.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Texas

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

e)

California and the Southwest Territory

5.

What is #2 on the map?

a)

Florida

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

United States in 1800

6.

Gained through a treaty with Spain

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Texas

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

e)

California and the Southwest Territory

7.

What is #4 on the map?

a)

Florida

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Treaty of Paris 1783

8.

Added after it became an independent republic.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Texas

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

e)

California and the Southwest Territory

9.

What is #7 on the map?

a)

California and the South West Terr. (Mexican Cession)

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Oregon Territory

10.

The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the is known as-

a)

Colonialism

b)

Expansionism

c)

Patriotism

d)

Manifest Destiny

11.

What is #3 on the map?

a)

Florida

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Treaty of Paris 1783

12.

Who was sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Madison and Monroe

b)

Lewis and Clark

c)

Jefferson and Adams

13.

What is #5 on the map?

a)

Gained after a war with Mexico

b)

Jefferson Purchased this land from France

c)

Added to the U.S. after it became an independent republic

d)

Territory divided between the U.S. and Great Britain

14.

Jefferson bought land from France, which doubled the size of the United States

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Texas

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

e)

California and the Southwest Territory

15.

This map shows which reason for Westward Migration?

a)

Steamboats and Railroads

b)

the belief in Manifest Destiny

c)

increased knowledge of overland trails

d)

cheap, fertile land

16.

What is #1 on the map?

a)

The original 13 Colonies

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida

17.

People moved west because ___.

a)

taxes were getting too high in the east

b)

availability of cheap, fertile land

c)

they did not like living on the coast

d)

the land was too fertile in the east

18.

What is #6 on the map?

a)

Gained after a war with Mexico

b)

Jefferson Purchased this land from France

c)

Added to the U.S. after it became an independent republic

d)

Territory divided between the U.S. and Great Britain

19.

Territory gained after a war with Mexico.

a)

Louisiana Purchase

b)

Texas

c)

Florida

d)

Oregon

e)

California and the Southwest Territory

20.

The Santa Fe and Oregon are examples of ____ that improved as more travelers used them and gained new knowledge of the dangers along the way.

a)

overland trails

b)

canals

c)

new transportation

d)

forts

21.

What is #6 on the map?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Oregon Territory

22.

Which of the following is not an example of cheaper faster water transportation?

a)

canals

b)

steam locomotive(train)

c)

steamboat

23.

What was not one of the economic factors people moved west for?

a)

gold

b)

freedom for runaway slaves

c)

steamboats and locomotives

d)

farming

e)

logging

24.

Westward migration was influenced by what two factors?

a)

culture and geography

b)

economics and politics

c)

geography and economic opportunity

25.

What is #4 on the map?

a)

Gained after a war with Mexico

b)

Jefferson Purchased this land from France in 1803

c)

Added to the U.S. after it became an independent republic

d)

Land gained through a treaty with Spain

26.

Select all the reasons for Westward Migration

a)

availability of cheap, fertile land

b)

improved transportation and knowledge of trails

c)

the belief in Manifest Destiny

d)

economic opportunities

e)

population growth in the east

27.

What was the manmade waterway that made travel across New York using water cheaper and easier?

a)

The Erie Canal

b)

The Hudson Bay

c)

Panama Canal

d)

The Gulf of Mexico

28.

What is #7 on the map?

a)

Gained after a war with Mexico

b)

Jefferson Purchased this land from France

c)

Added to the U.S. after it became an independent republic

d)

Territory divided between the U.S. and Great Britain

29.

Which invention removed seeds from cotton?

a)

Mechanical reaper

b)

Cotton gin

c)

Steamboat

d)

Steam locomotive

30.

The reaper ___.

a)

removed seeds from cotton(increasing the demand for slave labor)

b)

was faster land transportation

c)

cut/harvested grains(increasing the productivity of the American farmer)

d)

made river transportation faster

31.

Which invention provided for faster river transportation?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

the steam locomotive

c)

Reaper

d)

Steamboat

32.

Which invention provided faster land transportation?

a)

Conestoga wagon

b)

Steam locomotive

c)

Steamboat

d)

Reaper

33.

Who patented the cotton gin?

a)

Jo Anderson

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Cyrus McCormick

d)

Robert Fulton

34.

Who worked to invent the mechanical reaper?

a)

Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson

b)

Robert Fulton and Eli Whitney

35.

Who was the enslaved African-American that worked to invent the mechanical reaper?

a)

Robert Fulton

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Jo Anderson

36.

Which invention increased the need for slave labor?

a)

reaper

b)

cotton gin

c)

steam locomotive

d)

steamboat

37.

Which invention increased the productivity of the American farmer?

a)

reaper

b)

cotton gin

c)

steam locomotive

d)

steamboat

38.

Which invention connected southern farms and plantations to northern industries and western territories?

a)

reaper

b)

cotton gin

c)

steam locomotive

d)

steamboat

39.

What invention provided for faster land transportation?

a)

steamboat

b)

cotton gin

c)

reaper

d)

steam locomotive

40.

During the time of expansion industrialization was found primarily in ___.

a)

the North

b)

the South

c)

the West

41.

The ___ relied on the tools and equipment produced in the industrial North.

a)

North

b)

South

c)

West

42.

The first person to think of or create something is ___.

a)

an inventor

b)

an entrepreneur

c)

an abolitionist

d)

a suffragist

43.

A person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit is ___.

a)

an inventor

b)

an entrepreneur

c)

an abolitionist

d)

a suffragist

44.

A ____________is a government document that proves that an invention is yours and yours alone.

a)

patent

b)

entrepreneur

45.

Which of the following tribes attempted to keep their native homelands by taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

Cherokee

b)

Inuit

c)

Powhatan

d)

Lakota

46.

True or False?

Westward Expansion had only positive effects on American Indians?

a)

True

b)

False

47.

The _____________________was part of the American Indian removal policy, in which the Cherokee nation and other tribes were forced to give up their lands east of the Mississippi River and to relocate to an area in present-day Oklahoma

a)

"Boston Tea Party

b)

“Trail of Tears”

c)

"Homestead Act"

48.

The Indian Removal Act eventually forced tribes east of the Mississippi River to relocate to which present-day state?

a)

New Jersey

b)

Texas

c)

Oklahoma

d)

California

49.

The _______________________________authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern tribes exchanging their lands for land in the West.

a)

American Indian Removal Act

b)

Northwest Ordinance

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Homestead Act

50.

The discovery of ______on American Indian land in the southern United States eventually led to the removal of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.

a)

Silver

b)

gold

c)

Oil

d)

diamonds

51.

Select all the reasons for Westward Migration

a)

availability of cheap, fertile land

b)

improved transportation and knowledge of trails

c)

the belief in Manifest Destiny

d)

economic opportunities

e)

population growth in the east

52.

Workers working on an assembly line at a factory is best described as a modern example of:

a)

Division of Labor

b)

Emigration

c)

Interchangeable parts

d)

Immigration

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