Question 1

people in the United States moved west.

Accepted Answer

Westward Expansion

Question 2

God said it was okay for the United States to get bigger

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 3

railroad built across the United States

Accepted Answer

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 4

people who went to California looking for gold in 1849.

Accepted Answer

forty-niners

Question 5

a person who is the first to go to a new place

Accepted Answer

pioneer

Question 6

land with lots of grass in the United States

Accepted Answer

Great Plains

Question 7

land that the United States bought from France in 1803.

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 8

two men who went to visit the Louisiana Purchase

Accepted Answer

Lewis and Clark

Question 9

a place where it is hard to live

Accepted Answer

frontier

Question 10

President Andrew Jackson signed a law saying the Native Americans had to move west in 1830.

Accepted Answer

Indian Removal Act

Question 11

land that is for Native Americans to live on

Accepted Answer

reservations

Question 12

President James Monroe said the United States would not let Europe come to North and South America.

Accepted Answer

Monroe Doctrine

Related quizzes