Question 1

Which of the following is a category into which someone's reasons to immigrate could fall (THERES MORE THAN ONE ANSWER)?

A) social

B) religious

C) political

D) economic

Question 2

The people heading west are called

A) schooners

B) explorers

C) enterprising

D) pioneers

Question 3

Most of the emigrants began their journey west in which city and state?

A) St. Louis, Missouri

B) Cleveland, Ohio

C) Kansas City, Missouri

D) Chattanooga, Tennessee

Question 4

Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States was

by God to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 5

Match the correct term with the description that best describes it.

This treaty gave the United

States control of Florida. 1. Convention of 1818

This cost $10 million dollars

and gave the United States a 2. Adams-Onis Treaty

very small strip of land that was

needed for the southern

transcontinental railroad 3. Gadsden Purchase

The boundary line between

British north America

and the United States. 4. Webster-Ashburton Treaty

This treaty with Great 5. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Britain set the boundary

of Maine and Lake Superior.

6. 49th Parallel

set the boundary between

the United States and

British North America.

This treaty ended the

Mexican-American War

by Mexico ceding the

Southwest to the United States.

Question 6

The Mexican-American War started when a few Mexicans a few Americans.

Question 7

Select all the reasons below that caused people in the United States to want to go to war with Mexico (THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ANSWER).

A) A border dispute between Texas and Mexico

B) They didn't like the way Mexico ran their government and found it threatening.

C) They believed in Manifest Destiny and wanted to spread the American way of life.

D) Slave owners saw Mexico as a place to extend slavery.

Question 8

Frederick Douglas was a famous African-American

Question 9

An is someone who wants a practice or institution to be stopped.

Question 10

The people that were going to California to look

for gold were called.