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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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  • Q1
    When did the United States buy Louisiana from France?

    1863

    1776

    1983

    1803
    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q2
    What country sold Louisiana to the United States?

    Russia

    France

    Germany

    Spain

    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q3
    How did California become part of the United States?

    Given to the US by France

    Mexican American War

    Purchased from Russia

    Taken from the British

    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q4
    the idea that the US was destined to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
    Manifest Destiny

    Westward Expansion

    American Expectionalism

    30s
    USI.8
  • Q5
    How did the first Americans that moved to the west make money?
    trappers

    tobaccoists

    gold miners

    fisherman

    30s
    USI.1.f
  • Q6
    What were the new lands called before they became states?
    territories

    they were called states

    lands

    dragons

    30s
    USI.1.b
  • Q7
    How did the US government motivate Americans to move west?
    free land

    they did nothing

    free gold

    free guns

    30s
    USI.8
  • Q8
    When did the Gold Rush start in California?

    1991

    1849

    1776

    1492

    30s
    USI.8.b
  • Q9
    Who were the religious people that moved to Utah?
    Mormons

    Catholics

    Protestants

    Atheists

    30s
    USI.8.b
  • Q10
    How long did the trip west usually take on the Oregon Trail?

    1  week

    2 years

    5 or 6 months

    10 years

    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q11
    What word means a group of wagons that traveled together to the west?

    airplanes

    wagon train

    canals

    steamboats

    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q12
    One out of every ______ pioneers died traveling to the west.

    2

    50

    300

    20
    30s
    USI.8.a
  • Q13
    Leader of the Sioux (Lakota) that fought back against the invasion of the west by white Americans in the 1800s.

    Pocahontas

    Sitting Bull

    Dan George

    Tadodahado

    30s
    USI.8.c
  • Q14
    A place where the government of the United States forced American Indians to live in the 1800s.

    state

    vacation

    reservation

    territory

    30s
    USI.8.c
  • Q15
    Railroad 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

    30s
    USI.8.d

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