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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Measures 9 skills from
United States History to 1865
History and Social Science
Virginia Standards of Learning

USI.8.a

USI.8

USI.1.f

USI.1.b

USI.8.b

USI.8.c

USI.8.d

USI.1

USI.1.g

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When did the United States buy Louisiana from France?
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1863
1776
1983
1803

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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

Measures 9 skills fromUnited States History to 1865History and Social ScienceVirginia Standards of Learning

Measures 9 skills from
United States History to 1865
History and Social Science
Virginia Standards of Learning