Westward Expansion Events
Question: What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
Answer: What is the US annexing Texas and a dispute over the Texas-Mexico border?
Question: Why did people move westward?
Answer: What is for more opportunities, the Homestead Act, and Manifest Destiny
Question: What was the Gold Rush?
Answer: What is when many people moved to California in search of gold
Question: What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
Answer: What is a law where the US government gave settlers land in the west as long as they lived on it?
Question: How was life for settlers during migration?
Answer: What is very hard, traveling through rough conditions with limited resources and diseases?
Question: What were boomtowns?
Answer: What are towns that quickly exploded in population due to people searching for gold, with limited resources and goods?
Question: What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
Answer: What is the US annexing Texas and a dispute over the Texas-Mexico border
Question: How did Manifest Destiny impact Native Americans?
Answer: What is it displaced many and led to violent conflicts, including the Trail of Tears and the Indian Removal Act?
Question: What role did religion play in Manifest Destiny?
Answer: What is people believed God destined Americans to spread democracy and capitalism?
Question: What was the Trail of Tears?
Answer: What is the forced removal of Natives, especially the Cherokee, from their homes, where thousands died due to disease, starvation, and exhaustion?
Question: Why was the end of Westward Expansion bad for America?
Answer: What is it ended the American Dream with no more new land and opportunities, and hurt Native Americans?
Question: Name one state the US gained from the Louisiana Purchase. Besides Louisiana.
Answer: What is Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, or Texas?
Question: What was the Oregon Trail, and why was it important?
Answer: What is a major route that allowed many Americans to migrate westward?
Question: What was the Indian Removal Act?
Answer: What is a law that forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River?
Question: What were some new inventions during Westward Expansion and their uses?
Answer: What are jeans (durable clothes for miners), barbed wire (helped cowboys manage cows), refrigerator cars (transported perishable goods), and telegraph/Morse code (long-distance communication)?