Western

Expansion
What Was The Westward
Expansion?
A. Everyone in the United States
moved to western states
B. The United States decided to
expand to the west and have more
land
C. The United States expanded
from the west to the east
D. All Americans realized the west
was cooler than the east

Who Was President

During The Mexican
War?
A. Andrew Jackson
B. George Washington
C. James K. Polk
D. Abraham Lincoln
Which States Became Part Of The
United States During This Time
Period?
A. Louisiana, Oregon, California, New
York, and Arizona
B. Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona,
Texas and Florida
C. Oregon, Texas, Florida, Louisiana,
California, and New Mexico
D. All 50 states

Why Did Northern States Appose To

Annexing Texas?
A. Because it was a slave state and the
northern states had banned slavery
B. Because it could possibly spark a
war with Mexico
C. Because it would give the southern
states more power and there would be
less balance between the states
D. All of the above

Who First Wrote About

The Idea "Manifest
Destiny"?
A. Andrew Jackson
B. John O'Sullivan
C. James K. Polk
D. General Antonio Lopez
De Santa Anna

What Year Was The

Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty Signed?
A. 1803
B. 1846
C. 1848
D. 1847
Before Louisiana Became
Part Of The United
States, Who Was It
Owned By?
A. France
B. Spain
C. Mexico
D. Great Britain

What Was The United States

"Manifest Destiny"?
A. That America needed more slave
states
B. That America needed to expand
to the west and gain more land
C. That it was our obvious fate to
have a war with Mexico
D. That America needed less
slavery

Which Territory Was

Once Known As The Lone
Star Republic For Ten
Years?
A. California
B. New Mexico
C. Texas
D. Louisiana

Which Different Countries was

Oregon Owned By In 1819?
A. The United States, Great
Britain, Spain, and Russia
B. Spain, Mexico, France, and
Great Britain
C. The United States, Great
Britain, Spain, and Mexico
D. Mexico and The United
States
What Caused The Mexican War?
A. Mexico was angry about the
United States annexing Texas
B. Sixteen American troops where
shot at by a Mexican army
C. The United States and Mexico
had different ideas of which river
was the border between Mexico
and Texas
D. All of the above

What Did The Guadalupe Hidalgo

Give To The United States?
A. Texas and Louisiana
B. Louisiana and The Mexican
Cession
C. California and The Mexican
Cession
D. The Mexican Cession and
Texas

When Was The

Louisiana Purchase
Ratified?
A. 1800
B. 1848
C. 1863
D. 1803

Who Went Into Florida

With 1,700 Troops And
Tortured Seminole
Indians?
A. James K. Polk
B. General Santa Anna
C. Andrew Jackson
D. John O'Sullivan
Why Did Some Americans Worry
About Purchasing Louisiana?
A. Because it was 15 million and it
could be hard to govern such a large
country
B. Because it would turn into a slave
state
C. Because Mexico wanted it as
their territory
D. Because they were against the
idea of Manifest Destiny

Which of the following time

periods corresponds to the
first major flurry of
expansion and the admission
of new states?
A. 1763 - 1776
B. 1791 - 1803
C. 1843 - 1857
D. All of the above
Which of the following
groups were given land by the
federal government?
A. Soldiers in the War of
1812
B. Railroad companies
C. Homesteaders who paid a
small registration fee
D. All of the above

The earliest settlers of

what is now the Midwest
generally settled along
which of the following?
A. Oceans
B. Lakes
C. Rivers
D. Canals
Which of the following groups
made up the majority of the
earliest settlers in the West?
A. Fur traders
B. Southerners whose lands
had been destroyed during
the Civil War
C. Criminals escaping justice
D. Former militiamen

Which of the following best

describes the image of the
East that most westerners
held in the 1820s?
A. Underdeveloped
B. Decadent
C. Dirty
D. Un-American

Which of the following

groups benefited most
form Federalist land
policy?
A. Small farmers
B. Merchants
C. Speculators
D. Slave traders

Which of the following

groups presented opposition
to land speculators during
the 1810s and 1820s?
A. Squatters
B. Federalists
C. Bankers
D. None of the above

Most farmers who

purchased land in the
West grew _______.
A. Wheat
B. Lonely
C. Cash crops
D. Peanuts

In 1820, what percentage

of the nation's cotton was
produced in Alabama and
Mississippi?
A. 100%
B. 66%
C. 50%
D. 25%
Which of the following
was a main result of high
land prices?
A. Speculation
B. Commercial farming
C. Neither A nor B
D. Both A and B

Which of the following were

reasons for the Panic of 1819?
A. The Bank of the US demanded
redemption of its state bank notes
B. Foreign demand for American
crops dropped off
C. The state banks demanded that
small farmers pay off their loans
D. All of the above

Which of the following

groups was hurt the most
by the Panic of 1819?
A. Speculators
B. Small farmers
C. Banks
D. They were all hurt
equally

Which of the following

was a result of the Panic
of 1819?
A. Distrust of banks
B. A search for more
efficient transportation
C. Higher tariffs
D. All of the above
Which of the following
played the largest role in
the poor treatment of the
Indians?
A. Henry Clay
B. James K. Polk
C. George Armstrong Custer
D. Andrew Jackson

Which of the following

tribes was not a member of
what the Americans called
the Five Civilized Tribes?
A. The Creeks
B. The Cherokees
C. The Seminoles
D. The Sioux
The effect of the ruling in
Worcester v. Georgia was _______.
A. The acceptance of the Cherokee
Bill of Rights
B. The immediate removal of all
Cherokees from Georgia
C. The passage of legislature
protecting the Cherokees from
lersssment
D. Nothing. There was no effect on
policy

How much did the US pay for

the 190 million acres of land it
gained from Indian removal
between 1832 and 1837?

A. $0
B. $70 million
C. $200 million
D. $400 million
What was a main reason that roads
were an inefficient method of
shipping cargo for trade?
A. The presence of bandits in the
forests surrounding the roads which
passed through uninhabited areas
B. The high cost of maintaining them
C. The difficulty of constructing
them around geographic obstacles
D. All of the above

Which current state most

closely approximates the
area which the Indians from
east of the Mississippi were
forced into by removal?
A. South Dakota
B. Iowa
C. Oklahoma
D. Utah

Which of the following

would have taken the
longest to float up the
Mississippi?
A. A keelboat
B. A sloop
C. A flatboat
D. A steamboat

Which of the following

eastern cities were two of the
first to be connected to the
West through railroads?
A. Albany and Richmond
B. Charleston and Philadelphia
C. Providence and New York
City
D. Baltimore and Boston
Which of the following is a main
reason that railroads grew quickly
during the 1830s and 1840s?
A. The objection to
industrialization presented by
agrarian Democrats
B. The poor quality of construction
and high maintenance costs
C. The shortage of workers due to
western migration
D. All of the above

What proportion of United

States citizens lived in
places with a population of
2,500 or more by 1860?
A. 5%
B. 20%
C. 40%
D. 65%
When was the Santa Fe Trail
first utilized?
A. During the 1815 to 1819
cotton boom
B. After the Panic of 1819
C. After Mexico authorized
colonization of New Mexico in
1828
D. During the gold rush of 1849

What was the purpose of the mission

system?
A. To establish forts to protect Mexican
settlers from attacks from the western
Indians
B. To police the American settlement of
the West
C. To convert the western Indians and
settle them on mission lands
D. To come up with lists of saint's names
which would sound good as the names of
towns

Which of the following was a cause

for Indian hostility toward the
Mexican settlers after the
dissolution of the mission system?
A. Ranchers used Indians as slave
laborers
B. Hispanic settlers stole livestock
from the Indians
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B

Which of the following best describes

the sentiments of the Mexican
government toward the extension of
American settlement and trade into the
Mexican territories during the 1830s?
A. It distrusted the Americans' motives
B. It was indifferent to the movements
of the Americans
C. It welcomed American settlement and
trade
D. It was militantly against the intrusion
of Americans

How did Stephen F. Austin

first become influential in the
development of Texas?
A. As the leader of a failed
revolt in 1826
B. As the author of the Texas
Constitution
C. As a famous adventurer
D. As an empresario

In what year did Antonio

Lopez de Santa Anna
purge his government of
liberal leaders?
A. 1830
B. 1834
C. 1845
D. 1848
What was the biggest complaint American
settlers registered about the Mexican
government in the period of settlement
before 1830?
A. The Mexican government was hostile to
immigrants
B. The Mexican government regulated the
location and manner of settlement too
strictly
C. The Mexican government was
disorganized and corrupt
D. The Mexican government strongly
supported abolitionism

When did Mexico recognize

Texan independence, which
the Texas Rebellion had
claimed as its ultimate goal?

A. 1830
B. 1836
C. 1848
D. Never
Where did the majority
of early settlers in
California live?
A. San Francisco
B. San Diego
C. Los Angeles
D. Sacramento

In 1848, which of the following

territories contained more American
settlers?
A. Oregon
B. California
C. Both had a nearly equal number of
settlers
D. It is unknown even approximately
how many settlers lived in either
territory

What was the primary

reason for the failure of
the Donner Party?
A. A sudden storm
B. Indian attacks
C. A poor guidebook
D. Physical disability

Which of the following

items did travelers to
the Far West often
overstock?
A. Clothing
B. Guns
C. Food
D. Oxen
Which of the following was a reason
that some settlers chose to settle
in Oregon rather than California?
A. Oregon was more likely to be
annexed by the United States
B. Oregon had a more comfortable
climate
C. Oregon was famous because of
Lewis and Clark
D. None of the above

Which of the following was the

cornerstone of John Tyler's campaign
for the annexation of Texas?
A. An appeal to the idea of manifest
destiny
B. Stories of great amounts of oil in
Texas
C. An appeal to humanitarians to "save"
the people of Texas
D. The rumor that Britain would annex
Texas if the US did not

Where was Oregon finally

divided between the US and
Great Britain?
A. 36 degrees 30 minutes
latitude
B. 49 degrees latitude
C. 54 degrees 40 minutes
latitude
D. 64 degrees latitude

What was the main reason that

John Tyler's annexation treaty
failed in the Senate?
A. Southern senators opposed
expansion
B. Northern senators opposed
expansion
C. Both southern and northern
senators feared sectional conflict
D. Effective filibustering

Which of the following best describes

the sentiments of most proponents of
Manifest Destiny?
A. They were for slavery in the West
B. They were against slavery in the
West
C. They were indifferent to slavery in
the West
D. Manifest Destiny did not become
prominent until after the issue of
slavery in the United States was
decided

Why did the US win the

Mexican War so easily?
A. They were fighting on their
home soil
B. Mexico had less manpower
than the US
C. The US had superior
artillery and leadership
D. All of the above
Which of the following was a main
argument against the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo presented in
Congress?
A. It was beneficial to slavery
B. It did not achieve the cession of
all of Mexico
C. It left the question of Texas
unresolved
D. It stalled the California gold
rush

The Wilmot Proviso

favored the interests of
which region of the US?
A. The South
B. The West
C. The Midwest
D. The North
Which part of the
buffalo, unused by the
Native Americans,
littered the Great Plains?
A. Dung
B. Horns
C. Hooves
D. None of the above

When did the Indians

finally cease resistance to
life in reservations?
A. 1870
B. 1880
C. 1890
D. 1900

Colonel George Armstrong

Custer is best known for
which of the following?
A. Defeat at Little Bighorn
B. Victory at Wounded Knee
C. Killing Sitting Bull
D. Inventing the Ghost
Dance

Which of the following was not a

clause in the Compromise of 1850?
A. California was admitted to the
Union as a free state
B. A more effective Fugitive Slave
law was passed
C. The slave trade was outlawed in
New Mexico and Utah, but slavery
continued
D. The federal government would
assume Texas' debt

How much did settlers

pay in order to receive
160 acres under the
Homestead Act?
A. $0
B. $10
C. $160
D. $200

Which of the following developments

is the railroad credited with
provoking?
A. Vast immigration from foreign
nations to the American West
B. A second boom in the number of
cash croppers
C. The settlement of new areas
between the Mississippi and the
west coast
D. All of the above
New Territories were acquired by the United
States after 1801. Which below was not a
acquired by the US during that time

A. Thomas Jefferson bought land from

France
B. they explored from the Mississippi
River to the Pacific Ocean
C. it doubled the size of the United
States
D. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to
explore the Louisiana Purchase
E. James Madison bought Texas

Which of the following was one

shortcoming of the Homestead Act?
A. It made land in the West more
expensive than it would have been at
market price
B. 160 acres was often not enough land
for a farmer
C. It distributed only undesirable land
D. The land given by the act was often
remote from lines of transportation
and other settlers

Who gave Florida to

the US?
A. Texas
B. France
C. Spain
D. Hawaii

When was Texas added to

the US
A. After the War 1812
B. When it became an
independent republic
C. After Florida was bought
D. During Thomas
Jefferson's time

What State was

acquired after the war
with Mexico?
A. Texas
B. Colorado
C. DC
D. California

Which two countries was

Oregon divided by?
A. France and Britain
B. Spain and Florida
C. United States and
Great Britain
D. France and Spain

Who Invented Cotton

Gin
A. Cyrus McCormick
B. Eli Whitney
C. Robert Fulton
D. Thomas Jefferson

Who invented the

Reaper
A. Cyrus McCormick/Jo
Anderson
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Harriet Tubman
D. Robert Fulton

Who is not a leader of

the Abolitionist
movement
A. Harriet Tubman
B. William Garrison
C. Fredrick Douglas
D. Isabel Truth

Who invented the

Steam Boat
A. Robert Fulton
B. Cyrus McCormick
C. William Garrison
D. James Madison
Who is not a leader of
the Suffrage Movement
A. Isabel Sojourner
Truth
B. Susan B Anthony
C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D. Jo Anderson

William Lloyd Garrison

A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

Spain gave ___ to the

United States through a
treaty.
A. California
B. Florida
C. Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas

The ____ increased the

production of cotton and thus
increased the need for slave
labor to cultivate and pick
the cotton.
A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

The ___ increased the

productivity of the
American farmer.
A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

Knowledge of overland trails

(Oregon and Santa Fe)
A. economic factor that
influenced western
movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western
movement

Population growth in the

eastern states
A. economic factor that
influenced western
movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western
movement

In the Lewis and Clark

expedition, Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark explored
___ from the Mississippi
River to the Pacific Ocean.
A. California
B. Florida
C. The Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas

Susan B. Anthony
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

Availability of cheap,
fertile land
A. economic factor that
influenced western
movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western
movement
opportunity, e.g., gold
(California Gold Rush), logging,
farming, freedom (for runaway
slaves)
A. economic factor that
influenced western movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western movement

Cheaper and faster

transportation, e.g., rivers
and canals (Erie Canal),
steamboats
A. economic factor that
influenced western movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western movement

The ___ provided faster river

transportation that connected
Southern plantations and
farms to Northern industries.

A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

The Territory was divided

by the United States and
Great Britain.
A. California
B. Florida
C. The Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas
War with Mexico resulted in
and the southwest territory
becoming part of the United
States.
A. California
B. Florida
C. The Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

believed that women

were deprived of basic
rights.
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

Jo Anderson (a slave) and

Cyrus McCormick worked
to invent the ___.
A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

Robert Fulton
improved the ___.
A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

Manifest Destiny - the idea that

expansion was for the good of
the country and was the right of
the country.
A. economic factor that
influenced western movement
B. geographic factor that
influenced western movement

Isabel Sojourner
Truth
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

worked to end
slavery
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement
Eli Whitney invented
the ___.

A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive

Harriet Tubman
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

Frederick Douglass
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

helped women gain

equal rights
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

Jefferson bought land from

France which doubled the size
of the U.S.

A. California
B. Florida
C. Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas

declared that All men

and women are created
equal.
A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement
Felt that slavery was a
violation of the principles
of democracy

A. Abolitionist
Movement
B. Suffrage Movement

was added after it

became an independent
republic.
A. California
B. Florida
C. Louisiana Purchase
D. Organ
E. Texas
These two men are usually thought of
working in pairs when mentioned.
They were sent by Thomas
Jefferson to explore the new and
uncharted West and find a water
route across all of North America.

A. Bernie and Phil

B. Lewis and Clark
C. Buffalo Bill and
Billy the Kid

The ___ provided

faster land
transportation.
A. cotton gin
B. reaper
C. steamboat
D. steam locomotive
Railroads were a vital key to the
Westward Expansion. What was the
main purpose of the building of
these iron horses?
A. For transportation to
better hunting locations
B. To transport people,
goods, gold, and much more
further West for a quicker
Westward movement.
C. They are fun to ride

When California was reached,

huge quantities of gold were
discovered here. The rush was
so intense, it made a period in
history called the ___.

Buffalo Bills real name is?

A. William F. Johnson
B. William F. Cody
C. William F. Jackson

A. Gold Rush
B. Death Carrel
C. Dry Age
Which types of Native
Americans lived in Alaska
and Northern Canada?
A. Inuit
B. Pueblo
C. Kwakiutl

Which types of Native

Americans natural
resources included fish,
berries, roots and deer?
A. Sioux
B. Pueblo
C. Kwakiutl

What is the combined length

of the Oregon Trail and Santa
Fe Trail?
A. 1200 miles
B. 3200 miles
C. 2000 miles

When did the

California Gold Rush
End?
A. In the year 1859
B. In the year 1958
C. In the year 1598

What year was Davy

Crockett born?
A. 1786
B. 1787
C. 1785
Policies based on the idea of
Manifest Destiny led to all of
the following EXCEPT?:
A. war with Mexico.
B. increased sectional conflict
over slavery.
C. the annexation of Texas.
D. the decline of the
Democratic party.

In Congress, most of the

criticism of the Mexican
War came from the?:
A. Democrats.
B. Federalists.
C. Republicans.
D. Populists.
E. Whigs
President Zachary Taylor favored the?:
A. exclusion of slavery from all the lands
acquired from Mexico.
B. swift admission of new states from the
Mexican Cession, with the issue of
slavery decided by the local inhabitants.
C. gradual admission of new states from
the Mexican Cession, after giving
southerners a chance to move into the
area.
D. creation of only slave states in all the
lands acquired from Mexico.

The California Gold Rush resulted in all of

the following developments EXCEPT the?:
A. influx of over 200,000 people into the
region.
B. forcing of thousands of Indians to serve
as indentured laborers.
C. kidnapping of thousands of Chinese to
serve as workers.
D. pressuring of the federal government to
create an effective government for the
area.

The application for California statehood

caused turmoil in Congress because?:
A. it would upset the balance between
the slave and free states in the Senate.
B. it would disturb the balance in the
House between those who favored
slavery and those who opposed it.
C. Democrats would allow no more slave
states into the Union.
D. Whigs would allow no more free
states into the Union.

Manifest Destiny was based on all of the

following ideas EXCEPT?:
A. Anglo-Saxon racial superiority
justified American absorption of
inferior peoples and their lands.
B. new lands would extend the domain of
free government and free enterprise.
C. conquest of new territory would prove
American military superiority.
D. America had a specially ordained
mission in the world.

What was the cause of the increasingly

tense relations between the Mexican
government and the American
residents in Texas after 1830?:
A. the instability of Mexican politics.
B. attempts by the Mexican
government to prohibit importation of
slaves.
C. increasing American immigration.
D. all of these choices are correct.

The Senate rejected annexing Texas drawn

up by Secretary of State Calhoun because?:
A. he defended annexation as a way to
protect and defend slavery.
B. the Texans were not yet ready to give up
their independence and join the United
States.
C. the British threatened to break off
diplomatic relations if the United States
took the territory without compensating
them.
D. Mexico threatened to declare war if the
United States stole its province.

The Pre-Emption Action of 1841?:

A. forced squatters to buy at public
auction the land they lived on.
B. authorized free land grants for
homesteaders who improved
unsettled federal land.
C. legalized settlement on federal
land prior to its being surveyed.
D. provided 160 acres of land to
veterans of the Mexican War.

What newly acquired

piece of land were Lewis
and Clark sent to explore?
A. Indiana Territory
B. New England Colonies
C. Oregon Country
D. Louisiana Purchase
Robert Fulton piloted up
the Hudson River in his
side-wheeled steamboat
named the ______ ?
A. Titanic
B. Eagle
C. Maine
D. Clermont

Daniel Boone was an early

pioneer who settled in
Kentucky in what year?
A. 1620
B. 1910
C. 1775
D. 1865
Daniel Boone found the
Cumberland Gap that ran
through the Appalachian
Mountains to what state?
A. Virginia
B. Georgia
C. Kentucky
D. Ohio

What has the area of land called

that is north of the Ohio River
and east of the Mississippi River
which was given to the United
States after the Revolutionary
War?

A. Northwest Territory
B. Indian Country
C. Louisiana Purchase
D. New England

John Chapman was

known by what name?
A. John Dunn
B. John Wayne
C. Johnny Appleseed
D. John Marshall

The early fur-trappers who

roamed the west in search
of beaver pelts where
known by what term?
A. French Explorers
B. Cowboys
C. Adventurers
D. Mountain Men
In 1805, this army officer
was sent by the U.S.
Government to find the
source of the Mississippi
River.
A. John Astor
B. Zebulon Pike
C. Sam Houston
D. George Custer

What transported goods

across the Allegheny
mountains to the
frontier?
A. Stage Coach
B. Prairie Schooner
C. Conestoga Wagon
D. Oxen Wagon
The Battle of Fallen
Timbers in northwestern
Ohio was fought between
the Americans and ____.
A. American-Indians
B. French
C. British
D. Mexico

In 1794, the United States and

Great Britain signed Jay's
Treaty which tried to settle
problems in what area of the
U.S.?
A. Louisiana Purchase
B. Southern Colonies
C. Northwest Territory
D. Texas

In 1790, the United

States shared territory
east of the Mississippi
with this country;
A. Great Britain
B. Italy
C. France
D. Spain

In 1793, Eli Whitney devised a

machine that revolutionized
Southern agriculture and
allowed Southern farmers to
expand cotton production.
A. Cotton Mill
B. Steam Engine
C. Cotton Gin
D. Harvester

Through what mountains

did the Wilderness Road
provide a route?
A. Appalachian
B. Rockies
C. Sierra Nevada
D. Cascade

The expansion of white settlers into

the Northwest Territory was met with
resistance by the American-Indians.
The most significant conflict to white
settlement came from this Shawnee
warrior:

A. Cochise
B. Geronimo
C. Sitting Bull
D. Tecumseh

What term describes the

idea that the United States
would extend from the
Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean?
A. migration
B. Manifest Destiny
C. democracy
D. immigration

What man symbolize a

frontier leader?
A. George Washington
B. John Adams
C. Davy Crockett
D. Thomas Jefferson
Which area was the
last to be settled?
A. Oregon
B. California
C. Ohio
D. Oklahoma

Which of these materials

was not used to build
frontier homes?
A. cement
B. logs
C. sod
D. adobe

Which of the following

jobs did women do on
the frontier?
A. operated stores
B. built cabins
C. fought Indians
D. all of the above

Which state was

among the first to
allow women to vote?
A. New York
B. Tennessee
C. Montana
D. California

Which of the following was

generally true of young
people on the frontier?
A. They married young.
B. They accepted
responsibility.
C. They played a lot.
D. Both A and B

What does the word

constituents mean?
A. hunters
B. voters
C. miners
D. politicians

When did the Spanish give

Florida and parts of
Alabama and Mississippi to
the United States?

A. 1819
B. 1899
C. 1789
D. 1776

What was the name

given to French fur
trappers?
A. Iroquois
B. possibles
C. voyageurs
D. rendezvous
Which mountain man ran
the gauntlet through the
Blackfoot tribe and
escaped from them?
A. Hugh Glass
B. Jedediah Smith
B. John Colter
D. Joe Meek

Who explored more of the

west than any other man of
his time?
A. Jim Beckworth
B. Jedediah Smith
C. Andrew Jackson
D. Hugh Glass

What was the name of

an oily musk made from
the glands of dead
beavers?
A. rendezvous
B. castor
C. trap
D. buckskin

What area did the

mountain men call
Colters Hell?
A. Nevada
B. Rocky Mountains
C. Mexico
D. Yellowstone
What animal did
mountain men trap in
the West?
A. deer
B. beavers
C. mountain goats
D. bears

What is the meaning of

the word rendezvous?
A. meeting
B. war
C. fur trapper
D. trade

What did mountain

men usually wear?
A. buckskins
B. moccasins
C. distinctive hats
D. all of the above

Which famous mountain

man left Hugh Glass to
die alone?
A. Jim Bridger
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Kit Carson
D. Jedediah Smith

In what year was the

Oregon Trail opened?
A. 1865
B. 1914
C. 1841
D. 1876

Who was the chief guide

for John C. Fremonts
mapping Expeditions?
A. Jedediah Smith
B. Jim Beckwourth
C. Kit Carson
D. Jim Bridger
Which western trail was
opened by William
Becknell in 1821?
A. Oregon Trail
B. Gila Trail
C. Old Spanish Trail
D. Santa Fe Trail

Which trail guided more

than 250,000 farmers
and miners to California?
A. Gila Trail
B. Santa Fe Trail
C. California Trail
D. Mormon Trail

Which was the first

highway built with
federal funds?
A. National Road
B. Gila Trail
C. Wilderness Road
D. Old Spanish Trail

Which religious group led

by Brigham Young moved
west to escape persecution?
A. Baptists
B. Mormons
C. Catholics
D. Methodists

Which trial split off the

Organ Trail for those
traveling to California?
A. Santa Fe
B. Mormon Trail
C. California Trail
D. National Road

What does the word

merchant mean?
A. storekeeper
B. explorer
C. settler
D. trail boss

What made travel

westward dangerous?
A. rugged mountains
B. Indians
B. poor hunting
D. both A and B

Which trail was marked

out by Daniel Boone?
A. Oregon Trail
B. Wilderness Road
C. National Road
D. Mormon Trail
Who led a wagon train
along the Old Spanish
Trail from Santa Fe to
Los Angeles in 1841?
A. Daniel Boone
B. William Workman
C. John Rowland
D. Both B and C

What were people who

traveled to the unsettled
West said to have?
A. cabin fever
B. Oregon fever
C. cannibalism
D. contagion

Which of the following was

least dangerous to
travelers on the Oregon
Trail?
A. Indian tribes
B. disease
C. accidents
D. exhaustion

Which word means a

disease can be easily
caught by other people.
A. cannibalism
B. exhaustion
C. contagious
D. fertile

Who were most eager

to travel west?
A. children
B. women
C. grandparents
D. men

Why did families move

to Oregon?
A. financial failures
B. debts owed to banks
C. rising land values
D. all of the above
Which word means a
disease can be easily
caught by other people.
A. cannibalism
B. exhaustion
C. contagious
D. fertile

Which is not a
contagious disease?
A. cholera
B. scarlet fever
C. snakebite
D. small pox
What happened to the
Donner Party?
A. They took a shortcut.
B. They got snowed in.
C. They resorted to
cannibalism.
D. all of the above

How long was the

journey along the
Oregon Trail?
A. 200 miles
B. 2,000 miles
C. 20,000 miles
D. 1,000 miles
At what time did wagon
trains start off each
morning?
A. 9 oclock
B. 7 o'clock
C. 6 o'clock
D. 5 oclock

What did the travelers

burn in their cook fires?
A. wood
B. coal
C. dried bison manure
D. gas
Where did the Oregon
Trail begin?
A. Independence,
Missouri
B. Topeka, Kansas
C. Fort Kearny
D. Independence Rock

Revolutionary War, England

turned over the Northwest
Territories to the former
colonies. (This was the land
England had won from France
during the French and Indian
War.) The western border of
the brand new nation was ___.
A. the Ohio River
B. the Mississippi River
C. the Pacific Ocean

In 1803, France sold the

huge territory of Louisiana
to President Jefferson.
The Louisiana Purchase
A. doubled the size of the
United States
B. was a waste of money
C. caused a lot of protest
from citizens

President Jefferson
asked his secretary, ____
and a Virginia soldier
named William Clark to
explore this vast unknown
Louisiana Territory.
A. Daniel Boone
B. Meriwether Lewis
C. Johny Appleseed

With the help of an Indian

guide, Sacagawea, Lewis and
Clark explored the Louisiana
Territory and traveled all
the way to ___.
A. Texas
B. the Rocky Mountains
C. the Pacific Ocean

After the purchase of the

Louisiana Territory, the nation
continued to expand. ___
joined the nation after Spain
gave up the land in a treaty
signed in 1819.

A. Texas
B. Florida
C. California

After winning freedom

from Mexico in 1836 and
existing for nine years as an
independent republic, ___
decided to join the U.S. in
1845.
A. Arizona
B. California
C. Texas

Many Americans strongly

believed in ___, the
notion that the America
should expand all the way
to the Pacific coast.
A. Manifest Destiny
B. Reincarnation
C. Annexation

Britain and the U.S. argued

over ___ for decades and
finally agreed in a treaty
to split the land between
them at the 49th parallel.
A. Oregon Territory
B. California
C. Mexico

B area on the map is ___.

A. Oregon
B. California and the
southwest
C. Florida
D. the Louisiana Purchase
E. Texas
In 1848, just a few years
after the Oregon Territory
and Texas became part of the
U.S., the final piece of the
mainland was added. War with
Mexico resulted in ___
becoming part of the U.S.
A. Mexico and California
B. California and the
southwest
D. Alaska and Hawaii

B area on the map is ___.

A. Oregon
B. California and the
southwest
C. Florida
D. the Louisiana Purchase
E. Texas
C area on the map is ___.
A. Oregon
B. California and the
southwest
C. Florida
D. the Louisiana Purchase
E. Texas

F area on the map is ___.

A. Oregon
B. California and the
southwest
C. Florida
D. the Louisiana Purchase
E. Texas
E area on the map is ___.
A. Oregon
B. California and the
southwest
C. Florida
D. the Louisiana Purchase
E. Texas