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Unit 2 Growth & Expansion Test Review

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which president's foreign policy was to establish the global influence of the United States by declaring that the Western Hemisphere was closed to European colonization?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
2.

Which president's foreign policy was neutrality and isolationism to avoid getting involved in other countries' problems?

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

3.

Which president's foreign policy was to be the first president to ask Congress to declare war on Great Britain for interfering with U.S. shipping and frontier settlements?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
4.

What event happened in 1803?

a)

The Gold Rush happened and led to California becoming a state.

b)

Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

c)

Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet fight at Tippecanoe Creek.

d)

President Madison asked Congress to declare war on Britain.

5.

What event happened in 1812?

a)

The Gold Rush happened and led to California becoming a state.

b)

Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

c)

Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet fight at Tippecanoe Creek.

d)

President Madison asked Congress to declare war on Britain.

6.

What event happened in 1849?

a)

The Gold Rush happened and led to California becoming a state.

b)

Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

c)

Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet fight at Tippecanoe Creek.

d)

President Madison asked Congress to declare war on Britain.

7.

Which is the best example of the United States' foreign policy of ISOLATIONISM?

a)

Declaring war on Britain.

b)

Refusing to trade with France.

c)

Telling Spain to stop colonizing South America.

d)

Staying out of disputes between other countries.

8.

What was the purpose of the MONROE DOCTRINE?

a)

Tell Europe to stay out of North and South America.

b)

Establish an embargo to stop trading with Britain.

c)

Purchase land that would double the size of the United States.

d)

Formally end the war of 1812 between the U.S. and Britian.

9.

Which was NOT a reason the United States decided to go to war with Britain in the War of 1812?

a)

The British kidnapping or impressment of US Soldiers.

b)

France was refusing to trade with us until we helped them fight.

c)

Britain was encouraging Native Americans to attack settlers.

d)

The British Navy was attacking American Ships.

10.

What was a positive (+) impact of Manifest Destiny?

a)

Native American tribes were pushed off of their lands.

b)

Slavery spread further west.

c)

The U.S. gained more farmland and natural resources.

d)

Wars were started over disputes between nations.

11.

Which area of land was gained with the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

b)

c)

d)

12.

Who was brought along to be a guide and interpreter for the Corps of Discovery?

a)

b)

c)

d)

13.

Who traveled the trail that branched off from the Oregon Trail to start new businesses and look for gold?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
14.

Who was forced to move west to flee religious persecution and practice their faith in peace?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
15.

Who traveled southwest to trade goods with Mexico?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
16.

What trail is shown on the map?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

Mormon Trail

c)

California Trail

d)

Santa Fe Trail

e)

Trail of Tears

17.

What trail is shown on the map?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

Mormon Trail

c)

California Trail

d)

Santa Fe Trail

e)

Trail of Tears

18.

What trail is shown on the map?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

Mormon Trail

c)

California Trail

d)

Santa Fe Trail

e)

Trail of Tears

19.

What trail is shown on the map?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

Mormon Trail

c)

California Trail

d)

Santa Fe Trail

e)

Trail of Tears

20.

Which invention was intended to reduce the need for slaves, but instead caused slavery to spread further west?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
21.

Which invention increased the speed of transportation on boats and trains?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
22.

Which invention increased the speed of communication across long distances?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
23.

Which invention was used in textile mills and provided job opportunities for women and immigrants?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
24.

Which invention was a man-made waterway built to allow farmers in the Midwest to ship goods to factories in the East?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
25.

 

Who made the most money or profit during the gold rush?

a)

Entrepreneurs

b)

Forty Niners

c)

Native Americans

d)

Fur Traders

26.

Which area of land was gained when Congress agreed to add it to the United States after it had been an independent country for 10 years?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
27.

Which area of land was gained when the U.S. asked to buy it from Mexico to build a southern railroad?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
28.

Which area of land was gained when the U.S. won a war against Mexico?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
29.

Which map is showing the Mexican Cession?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
30.

Which map is showing the Texas Annexation?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
31.

What was the result of the Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Mexican Cession

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

War of 1812

32.

Who tried to unify Native Americans into one confederacy of tribes to resist white settlement?

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Tecumseh

c)

Chief Osceola

d)

Chief John Ross

33.

What vocabulary term is best shown in this painting?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Impressment

c)

Indian Removal Act

d)

Industrialization

34.

Which U.S. President was determined to fulfill Manifest Destiny by gaining Texas, the Mexican Cession, and added Oregon Country?

a)

James K. Polk

b)

John Adams

c)

James Monroe

d)

Andrew Jackson

35.

Which land area was gained through a war triggered by an argument over the location of the southern border of Texas?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
36.

What group of people were most hurt by President Andrew Jackson's policies?

a)

Frontier Settlers

b)

Mexican Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Native Americans

37.

Which map best shows the route the Cherokee were forced to take called the Trail of Tears?

a)
b)
c)
d)
38.

Which term is best represented by the painting, American Progress?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Impressment

c)

Neutrality

d)

Foreign Policy

39.

America's fulfillment of Manifest Destiny led to ________ ______________ of ancestral lands and tribal nations forced onto reservations.

a)

Genocide

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Native Dispossession

d)

Indian Removal Act

40.

Which President signed the Indian Removal Act that led to Native Dispossession of land, the Trail of Tears, and genocide for many Native American tribal nations?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

James Madison

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

James K. Polk

e)

Franklin Pierce

41.

What was NOT an effect of the War of 1812?

a)

The U.S. experienced an Industrial Revolution

b)

There was increased American patriotism

c)

The United States gained control of Canada

d)

Native American resistance on the frontier was weakened

42.

What do we call the shift from hand-made goods to using machines and new inventions?

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

Impressment

c)

Isolationism

d)

Cottage Industries

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