EXPANSION QUIZ - Practice

A term for the attitude in the 19th century that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.

• Annexation
• Expansion
• Diplomacy
• Manifest Destiny

The act of becoming larger or more extensive.

• Manifest Destiny
• Diplomacy
• Expansion
• Annexation

Signed into law in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson, it called for the resettlement of Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River to lands west (Indian Territory)

• Gadsden Purchase
• Mexican Cession
• Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears

The route along which the US government forced several tribes of Native Americans to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s.

• Indian Removal Act
• Trail of Tears
• Mexican Cession
• Texas Annexation

President Jackson sent soldiers to remove the _____________ to the new Indian Territory.

• Sioux
• Cheyenne
• Cherokee
• Iroquois

Gold was discovered in the lands that belonged to

• Andrew Jackson in Georgia
• Andrew Jackson in Mississippi
• Cherokee in Mississippi
• Cherokee in Georgia

Why was the trail nicknamed Trail of Tears?

• Because of how many people died.
• Because the Indigenous Americans faced much suffering.
• Because of the devastation the American Indians felt having to leave their lands
• All of the above.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move ...

• South to Florida
• West of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma

Over 3,000 Native Americans died on the Trail of Tears

• True
• False

Who was the president that ordered the Indian Removal Act?

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• James Madison
• Andrew Jackson