Westward Expansion

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the American West.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle Mexico.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the Eastern United States.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the reservations.

What is a homestead?

• It is a settler's home and land.

• It is a soldier's home and land.

• It is the Native Americans home and land.

• It is a Confederate's home and land.

Where did the U.S. government want the Plains Indians to move?

• Homestead

• Reservation

• Mexico

• Canada

Why did the Plains Indians not want to move to a reservation?

• The reservation land had too many buffalos.

• The Plains Indians were farmers and the reservation land was too far away.

• The Plains Indians were not farmers and the reservation land was small and poor.

• The reservation land was too large to settle.

The United States acquired the ​ (a)   when a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land.

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Territory

• Florida Territory

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8.6B

Who do historians consider the greatest Mountain Man? He explored more of the West, and collected more beaver pelts, than anyone else in the 1820's & 1830's. He also is credited with finding South Pass, a 12-mile gap in the Rocky Mountains that wagons could get through. (a)  

• Jedediah Smith

• Jim Beckwourth

• Hugh Glass

• Meriwether Lewis

Match the territory to how it was gained:

• California/Southwest

• Won after war with Mexico.

• Florida

• Became an independent country, then joined the US.

• Texas

• Bought from France.

• Oregon

• Treaty with Great Britan.

• Louisiana

• Treaty with Spain.

Which is the Oregon Territory

Answer explanation

The American victory over the British in the War of 1812 produced an American claim to the Oregon Territory and increased migration of American settlers into Florida, which was later acquired from Spain by the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819).

What appealed to settlers to move to the Great Plains in the 1840's?

• Steel and Iron

• Oil and Water

• Diamonds and Rubies

• Land and Gold

What was the Homestead Act?

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.