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WorksheetsCh.13 Westward Expansion Test
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 35mins
What phrase/term BEST fits this image?
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Manifest Destiny
Spirtitualism
What answer do the ideas below BEST fit?
* Fording rivers
* Independence, Missouri
* Signature Rock
Mount Rushmore
Oregon Trail
Trail of Tears
Trail of Destiny
What territory is shown in the red on the map?
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Territory
Texas Territory
Mexican Cession
What territory is associated with the blue area on the map?
Oregon Country
Louisiana Territory
Gadsden Purchase
Texas
How did Texas become part of the United States of America?
It was annexed in 1845.
The United States government bought it from Mexico.
The United States government bought it from Spain.
The United States made a treaty with Mexico in 1845.
What was the biggest threat/danger overland travelers faced on the Oregon Trail?
Native American attacks
Starvation
Lightning strikes
Cholera/Diseases
What answer BEST fits the information below and the image:
Siege
San Antonio, Texas
183 Texans killed
The Battle of Quebec
The Battle of Gadsden
The Siege of Charleston
The Siege of the Alamo
What resource did mountain men make a living off of out West?
Furs
Gold
Silver
Lumber
What group of people went west for religious reasons and settled mainly in Utah?
49ers
Texans
Mormons
Mountain Men
What event/topic BEST fits the information below:
* 49ers
*Sutter's Mill
*Vigilante towns
The fight for Texas Independence
The Mexican War
Farming in Oregon Country
The Gold Rush
Why did the United States make the Gadsden Purchase?
To build factories there.
To build railroads there.
To secure a location for trapping and trading furs.
To protect religious groups being attacked there.
How did the United States get the Oregon Territory?
America made a treaty with Britain.
America fought the British and won.
America bought it from Mexico for 10$ million
America annexed Oregon Territory in 1845
What term BEST fits this definition: The right and duty of America to spread from "sea to shining sea."
Nationalism
Manifest Destiny
Divine Providence
National Fate
What is the "angel of progress" unraveling in her left hand?
Satellite Wires
Computer Wires
Cable TV Wires
Telegraph Wires
Who was the President of Manifest Destiny?
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Van Buren
Zachary Taylor
What treaty ended the Mexican War and gave the United States the Mexican Cession?
The Treaty of Ghent
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Guadal Canal
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What evidence still exists of the tens of thousands who traveled on the Oregon Trail in 1840's-1850's?
The very first motion picture movies.
Wheel ruts in the ground.
Fossilized footprints from Oregon-bound travelers.
Arrowheads carved by people in the wagon trains.
What groups of people were negatively impacted by America's Manifest Destiny during the mid-1800's?
Spanish and French
Canadians and Spanish
British and Factory Workers
Mexicans and Native Americans
Why did travelers on the Oregon Trail risk their lives to move west?
For the opportunity to work in factories.
They wanted to escape terrible wars back east.
Because taxes were too high back east.
For free land to farm.
What answer best fits the information below:
*10$ million
* Bought from Mexico
* Parts of Arizona and New Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
Texas
Oregon Country
Louisiana Purchase
What does #5 on the map represent?
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Annexation of Texas
What group of people prospered (made money) during the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800's?
Native Americans
Mexicans
49ers
Merchants/Suppliers
What territory/area BEST fits the information below:
*No slavery
*Catholics only
*Cotton growing
Gadsden Purchase
Texas
Oregon Country
Mexican Cession
Which answer BEST fits the information below:
* California, Nevada, Utah
* Won from Mexican War
* 15 million dollars
Oregon Territory
Louisiana Territory
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
What reason did the U.S. government and American citizens give for moving and/or destroying Native American cultures?
Native Americans attacked and captured Washington, D.C.
Americans were jealous of Native American wealth
Native Americans were taking U.S. citizens' jobs
Native Americans had a different religion
What animal did Great Plains tribes rely on for most of their resources/livelihood and that Americans nearly wiped out between 1800-1900?
Gazelle
Beaver
Bison/Buffalo
Moose
What answer BEST relates to this image about how the United States conquered Native Americans?
They decimated the buffalo population.
They closed off the frontier with barbed wire.
They broke land treaties with Native American tribes.
The United States Army massacred Native American tribes.
What would be the BEST title for this political cartoon?
Manifest Destiny: freedom for all people.
Manifest Destiny: get on board the train, or get off the tracks.
Manifest Destiny: spreading peace and harmony across the country.
Manifest Destiny: all cultures welcome!
What answer BEST fits the information below:
*Southern half
*British Treaty
*Washington State
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Territory
Choose the answer that BEST completes this statement:
"49ers who went to California..."
usually struck it rich.
often went broke and became poor.
earned a living trapping and selling furs.
earned a living farming cotton and tobacco.
What was/is the name of the lands (usually not wanted) that the U.S. government forced Native Americans to live on.
Gulags
Hectares
Limitations
Reservations
What was the name of the Mexican dictator who lost Texas and the Mexican War?
San Antonio
Santa Anna
San Alamos
Santa Barbara
What was the name of Texas after it won its freedom from Mexico?
The Buffalo Flag Republic
The Gaucho State
Cattle Country
The Lone Star Republic
What two (2) groups of people were NEGATIVELY impacted by America's quest for Manifest Destiny during the mid-1800's?
The Spanish and French
The Spanish and British
The Canadians and Coureurs de Bois
Native Americans and Mexicans
What Enduring Issues BEST represent the term Manifest Destiny?
Urbanization
Scarcity
Industrialization
Colonization
Growth
Power
Cooperation
Globalization
