Go West Test

The belief that America was destined to expand from coast to coast is known as...

• Immigration

• Manifest Destiny

• Free Soil

• Mexican Cession

California's population boomed because of....

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Mexican Cession

• Gold Rush

• Mormon Trail

Which territory was land conquered from Mexico after the Mexican-American War?

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Texas Annexation

How did the U.S.A. get the Gadsden Purchase?

• Won it in a war with Mexico

• We bought it from Mexico

• It was included in the Mexican Cession

• There is no such thing

Why did Britain and the U.S. end the War of 1812?

• Washington defeated Cornwalis at the Battle of Yorktown

• No one was winning/it was a tie

• Britain was at war with France

• The U.S. was starting the Civil War.

What law passed in 1830 that made it legal to use force to remove American Indians from the land?

• Manifest Destiny

• Indian Removal Act

• Louisian Purchase

• The Treaty of Ghent

What was the trail that the American Indians were forced to walk, often in poor conidtions, when they were removed from their land and pushed into reservations?

• Oregon Trail

• Mississippi River

• Continental Divide

• Trail of Tears

What was the Oregon Trail?

• A trail used by pioneers to travel from Missouri to Oregon

• a trail used by young men to take mail form the east to west

• a trail used by Indians to go to Oklahoma when forced from their homes.

Expansion of the U.S. occurred mostly during WHAT time period?

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1900s

• 1600s

When ________ was invented there was no longer a need for the Oregon Trail.

• Airplanes

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Busses

• the Steamboat