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WorksheetsOur Nation Grows Part 2
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which act of congress allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to move west?
Native American Act
Federal
Act
Indian Removal Act
Settlers Act
Worcester v. Georgia
Stated that Georgia could force the Cherokee to move.
Stated that Georgia did not have the right to force the Cherokee to leave their land.
Gave Jackson the legal right to take land from the Civilized Tribes.
Who were the only Native Americans to successfully resist their removal?
Seminole
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Chawktaw
The Seminole lived in
The Appalachian Mountains
The Rocky Mountains
The Everglades of Florida
The Great Plains
Who was the Seminole leader who went to war against the United States in an effort to keep his nation's land?
Black Hawk
Sequoya
Red Snake
Osceola
Who along with federal troops led the Cherokee west on the Trail of Tears?
Jessie Grant
Winfield Scott
Oliver Hazzard Perry
Andrew Jackson
The first Americans to reach the Oregon country were
Fur Trappers
Farmers
Traders
Many emigrants to the Oregon country left in organized groups from
Columbus, Ohio
Indianapolis, Indiana
Independence, Missouri
New York City
The main route through the Rockies was called the
South Pass
North Pass
West Pass
East Pass
Great Britain and the United States resolved the Oregon issue by setting the boundary beteen them at the
40 degress latitude
54 degrees latitude
60 degrees latitude
49 degrees latitude
The mountain men gathered at the ________ to trade and socialize.
Creek
North Pass
rendezvous
Whitman mission
James K. Polk was a great believer in Manifest Destiny, his 1844 campaign slogan was ----------
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
"Polk to the rescue"
"Fifty four forty or fight."
"I like Ike"
John Jacob Aster made his fortune in the ______ trade.
Fur
Iron
Gold
Banking
Who was the commander at the Alamo"
Stephen Tyler
Stephen F. Austin
William B. Travis
Sam Houston
Who was the Mexican General that attacked the Alamo, he later became the dictator of Mexico.
General Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna
Senor Juan de Fossa
General Juan Bowie
Samuel de Houston
What did the fighters for Texas independence shout as a battle cry?
Texas or Die
Freedom or Death
Join or Die
Remember the Alamo
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home were called
Texans
Tejanos
Mexicans
Impresarios
Which trail left the Missouri River near Independence and crossed the prairies to the Arkansas River?
Independence Trail
Arkansas Trail
Missouri Trail
Santa Fe Trail
What did President James K. Polk use as grounds for declaring war against Mexico?
annexation of Texas
declaration of the border
attack of Zachary Taylor's forces
non-payment of debts
The United States mainland reached its present size with the ___
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
capture of Veracruz
The world's supply of gold was more than doubled by ..
Levi Strauss
boomtowns
John Sutter
The California Gold Rush
Who Founded the Morman Church?
Levi Strauss
Brigham Young
John Sutter
Joseph Smith
Who made the largest single migration in history?
Mormans
Gold Rush miners
Gold Rush merchants
forty-niners
Vigilantes were
groups that took the law into their own hands
Gold miners
Gold rush communities
Groups of Morman settlers
