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Motivations to Move West Unit Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To join a country...

a)

Frontier

b)

Annex

c)

Boomtown

d)

Wagon Train

2.

The edge of a country or settled region...

a)

Boomtown

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Frontier

d)

Pioneer

3.

One of the first to settle a region...

a)

Wagon Train

b)

Frontier

c)

Forty-niner

d)

Pioneer

4.

A line of covered wagons that all moved together...

a)

Wagon Circus

b)

Wagon Party

c)

Wagon Train

d)

Wagon Taxi

5.

Miners who went to California in search of gold...

a)

Forty-niners

b)

Fifty-niners

c)

Niners

d)

1849-ers

6.

Towns where population grew quickly during Gold Rush...

a)

Frontier

b)

Boomtown

c)

Pionier

d)

Rushtown

7.

The idea that it was the nation’s right to expand west

a)

Certain Destiney

b)

Absolute Destiny

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Total Destiny

8.

What does the following list describe? Fur trade, rich farmland, gold

a)

Reasons to move west

b)

The Southern economy

c)

Good reasons to take land from Native Americans

d)

Motivations to own slaves

9.

Who cleared the Wilderness Road?

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Lewis and Clark

c)

Daniel Boone

d)

Zebulon PIke

10.

Who was a translator for Lewis and Clark?

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Santa Anna

c)

Daniel Boone

d)

Zebulon PIke

11.

Explored the Louisiana Purchase for Thomas Jefferson.

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Lewis and Clark

c)

Daniel Boone

d)

Zebulon PIke

12.

Explored the Southeastern U.S.

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Lewis and Clark

c)

Daniel Boone

d)

Zebulon PIke

13.

Which land acquisition doubled the size of the U.S.?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Florida Purchase

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Oregon Treaty

14.

Which land acquisition settled the border dispute over the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Florida Purchase

c)

Oregon Treaty

d)

Texas Annexatoin

15.

After Mexico lost the Mexican American War, the U.S gained which land acquisition?

a)

Oregon Territory

b)

Florida Purchase

c)

Mexican Cession

d)

Louisiana Purchase

16.

Which of the following describes the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

The most expensive land deal in history

b)

The greatest real estate deal in history

c)

It was purchased from Spain

d)

It was a small piece of land

17.

The land in Texas was ideal for growing...

a)

Cotton

b)

Green beans

c)

Corn

d)

Apple Trees

18.

Which state was an independent country before becoming a state because it would upset the slave and free state balance?

a)

California

b)

Oregon

c)

Texas

d)

Florida

19.

Great Britain and the U.S. jointly owned...

a)

Florida Territoy

b)

Canada

c)

New Orleans

d)

Oregon Territory

20.

Which land acquisition is labeled C on the map?

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida Purchase

e)

Mexican Cession

21.

Which land acquisition is labeled A on the map?

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida Purchase

e)

Mexican Cession

22.

Which land acquisition is labeled E on the map?

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida Purchase

e)

Mexican Cession

23.

Which land acquisition is labeled D on the map?

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida Purchase

e)

Mexican Cession

24.

Which land acquisition is labeled B on the map?

a)

Oregon Treaty

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Texas Annexation

d)

Florida Purchase

e)

Mexican Cession

25.

What is the best title for this map?

a)

Trails of Westward Expansion

b)

Routes of Lewis and Clark

c)

Explorations of Sacagawea

d)

Native American Trails