Westward Expansion Unit Test

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100

This word means to give up control of. Often used when talking about giving up ownership or control of land.

Cede

200

This law split up new land into square areas that were six miles by six miles on each side.

The Land Ordinance of 1785

300

The term "squatters" was given to who?

People living on land in the Northwest territory that had not paid for it

400

After the Revolutionary War, the United States gained control of all land from the Mississippi River to what physical feature?

Atlantic Ocean

500

America's government after the Revolution was called what?

Confederation Congress

2

100

James K. Polk promised the American people that he would get this area of land from England.

Oregon Territory

200

This was a tough and grueling trail that many Americans traveled on headed West to settle land.

Oregon Trail

300

When a territory contained 60,000 white men, they could apply to become a state. What Act was this?

Northwest Ordinance

400

This act guaranteed that you could receive free land out West.

Homestead Act

500

This travel system greatly impacted the Native Americans and Westward expansion

Transcontinental Railroad

3

100

This massive purchase of land from France doubled the size of the U.S.

Louisiana Purchase 

200

The annexation of this state happened in 1845.

Texas

300

The Gadsden Purchase from Mexico served what purpose?

For the US to build a railroad around the rocky mountains.

400

This American Peninsula was purchased from the Spanish in 1819 for $5 million.

Florida

500

The Oregon Treaty from 1846 demanded that land from which country?

England

4

100

This Act from 1830 forced the Native Americans off their land to be relocated to reservations

Indian Removal Act of 1830

200

This is the term used for an area of land that was set aside for Native Americans.

Reserve

300

This Native American tribe was located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Lakota

400

This General was in charge of removing the Lakota tribe from their lands.

General Custer

500

This battle was one of the few victories of the Native Americans over the U.S. military.

Little Bighorn

5

100

John O'Sullivan coined this famous term for the god-given right to expand throughout the continent.

Manifest Destiny

200

This massacre took place in the South Dakota

Wounded Knee

300

Chief Joseph was the leader of what Native American Tribe?

Nez Perce

400

This path took Native Americans from their native homelands in the southeast U.S. to territories west of the Mississippi. It brutally took the lives of many Native Americans.

Trail of Tears

500

This term was used to describe Native Americans adapting to and adopting the American way of life and becoming like Americans.

Assimilation