Westward Expansion Test Review

What was the Lousiana Purchase?

• A piece of land that was purchased by the US from Great Britain

• A piece of land purchased from France

• A piece of land purchased by France from the U.S.

• A piece of land purchased by Great Britain from the U.S.

How did Sacajawea help Lewis and Clark in their expedition?

• She showed them how to fight against the Native American Tribes

• She helped lead their expedition and her tribe helped by giving them supplies, horses, and advice on how to travel over the Rocky Mountains

• She lead them to the Shoshone tribe as a trap to start a war since the tribe was angry about losing their land.

• She taught them how to communicate with the Native American tribes so that they could successfully trade for goods and supplies.

True or False? Lewis and Clark successfully reached the Pacific Ocean?

• True

• False

True or False? Sometimes the Native Americans were tricked into signing agreements they didn't fully understand

• True

• False

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• An act that allowed Native Americans to move settlers off of their land

• An act that allowed the government to move the Native Americans off of land

• An act that allowed the Cherokees to stay in Virginia and the Carolinas but not in Georgia and Tennessee

• An act that the Native Americans wrote in hopes to protect their land from settlers

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above

Which of the following was a social effect of westward expansion on the Native Americans?

• NA could not get enough supplies and this led to poverty

• NA were forced to live on reservations, which separated them from white pioneers

• NA could no longer access the rich mineral deposits found in the Black Hills

• NA culture became widely accepted by white settlers

How were the Native Americans economically affected by displacement?

• They profited from gold found on their reservations

• Their families were separated from their children

• They lived comfortably on reservations

• Many suffered from poverty and starvation

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

What invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?

• bean picker
• barbed wire
• steel plow
• windmills