Expanding West Review

One big motivation for Westward Expansion was the lucrative Fur Trade

• False

• True

Three main routes used to travel west...

• Mormon Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Santa-Fe Trail

• All of the Above

What group led by Joseph Smith & Brigham Young moved from New York to Utah?

• Catholics

• Evangelicals

• Mormons

Texans revolted as they were growing tired of Mexican laws, wanted to preserve slavery

• False

• True

Two major Battles in the Texas Revolution

• Alamo & San Jose

• San Francisco & Alamo

• San Jacinto & Alamo

• San Diego & San Jacinto

Hero of the Texas Revolution...

• Sam Neill

• Sam Houston

• Sam Snead

• Sam Waterson

Northern Abolitionists were against the Mexican-American war as they wanted more slave states

• True

• False

The cause of the Mexican-American War was over border disputes

• True

• False

People who moved west during the Gold Rush were known as 76ers

• True

• False

Manifest Destiny: US had the right to settle to the Pacific Ocean & spread democracy

• True

• False