Unit 3.2: Westward Expansion Pre-Assessment
Quiz by Dakota Springston
United States History to 1865
History and Social Science
Virginia Standards of Learning
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- Q1When did the United States buy Louisiana from France?
1863
1776
1983
180330sUSI.8.a - Q2What country sold Louisiana to the United States?
Russia
FranceGermany
Spain
30sUSI.8.a - Q3How did California become part of the United States?
Given to the US by France
Mexican American WarPurchased from Russia
Taken from the British
30sUSI.8.a - Q4the idea that the US was destined to extend from the Atlantic to the PacificManifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
American Expectionalism
30sUSI.8 - Q5How did the first Americans that moved to the west make money?trappers
tobaccoists
gold miners
fisherman
30sUSI.1.f - Q6What were the new lands called before they became states?territories
they were called states
lands
dragons
30sUSI.1.b - Q7How did the US government motivate Americans to move west?free land
they did nothing
free gold
free guns
30sUSI.8 - Q8When did the Gold Rush start in California?
1991
18491776
1492
30sUSI.8.b - Q9Who were the religious people that moved to Utah?Mormons
Catholics
Protestants
Atheists
30sUSI.8.b - Q10How long did the trip west usually take on the Oregon Trail?
1 week
2 years
5 or 6 months10 years
30sUSI.8.a - Q11What word means a group of wagons that traveled together to the west?
airplanes
wagon traincanals
steamboats
30sUSI.8.a - Q12One out of every ______ pioneers died traveling to the west.
2
50
300
2030sUSI.8.a - Q13Leader of the Sioux (Lakota) that fought back against the invasion of the west by white Americans in the 1800s.
Pocahontas
Sitting BullDan George
Tadodahado
30sUSI.8.c - Q14A place where the government of the United States forced American Indians to live in the 1800s.
state
vacation
reservationterritory
30sUSI.8.c - Q15Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US, making the trip to the west much easier for Americans.Transcontinental Railroad
Canal
Baltimore+Ohio
Steamboat
30sUSI.8.d