Westward Expansion

The forty-niners traveled west for

• free land

• gold

• railroad jobs

• religious freedom

What was the main reason American Indians went onto reservations?

• They formed an alliance with Mexico

• They wanted better farmland

• The US government forced them to move

• Buffalo herds led them there

How did Congress respond to the growing anger against Chinese workers in the late 1800s?

• It passed a law forbidding Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States

• It imposed lighter taxes on all Chinese immigrants and people of Chinese descent

• It organized education campaigns to teach native-born Americans about Chinese culture

• It forced all Chinese immigrants to leave the United States immediately

Which group of people settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, and what caused them to relocate there?

• Nez Perce because they were forced onto a reservation there

• Chinese immigrants because they were looking for work building railroads

• 49ers because they were searching for gold

• Mormons because they were seeking religious freedom

Many Americans in Texas wanted freedom from Mexico so they could

• get free land

• build homes at the Alamo

• help the American Indians

• keep their slaves

How did the Homestead Act encourage people to move west?

• It paid money for their old homes

• It made peace with the American Indians

• It filled eastern cities with immigrants

• It offered people cheap or free land

What was the idea of Manifest Destiny and how did it affect the lives of many Native people living in the land?

• The United States should give all citizens the right to vote, which allowed the Native Americans to have representation in government

• The United States should treat native peoples with respect and this meant that they had all the rights of other American people

• The United States had the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean and many Native Americans lost their land to settlers

• The United States should honor claims of land by other countries and respect the Native people and their land

The United States and Great Britain agreed on a boundary for the

• Oregon Country

• Mexican Cession

• Gadsden Purchase

• Lousiana Purchase

Jefferson agreed to buy French land to the west so that

• runaway slaves could hide there

• American Indians would have a place to live

• American goods could move through New Orleans

• the United States would have an ally against Great Britain

Why did the United States have new acquisitions in the West?

• To give people from the United States more lad to farm and live on

• To study American Indian cutures

• To protect the natural environment

• To have closer ties with Europe