USI.8a, 8b, 8c, 8d Expansion and Change

Question 1

What territory did the United States and Great Britain divide?

Accepted Answer

Oregon

Question 2

Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States should —

Accepted Answer

expand for the good of the country and had a right to do it

Question 3

How did the growth of railroads lead to the expansion of the United States?

Accepted Answer

People and goods moved westward more easily.

Question 4

This area on the map started as an independent republic before becoming a US territory in 1845

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 5

The US government could negotiate with eastern tribes to trade their lands for land in the west

Accepted Answer

American Indian Removal Act

Question 6

What led the U.S. government to remove Cherokee Indians from their land?

Accepted Answer

Discovery of gold on Indian land in the southern U.S.

Question 7

Which land acquisition came first?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 8

Which Supreme Court decision supported the Cherokee Indians' rights to their lands?

Accepted Answer

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Question 9

Someone who brings a new or better good or service to market in hopes of making a profit is ⎯

Accepted Answer

an entrepreneur

Question 10

What title would fit where the “?” is?

Accepted Answer

Geographic & economic factors for settlers moving West

Question 11

Name the invention pictured below that increased the use of slave labor.

Accepted Answer

Cotton gin

Question 12

The Cherokee nation & other tribes were forced to give up their lands and relocate to Oklahoma

Accepted Answer

The Trail of Tears

Question 13

What waterway connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River allowing for faster transportation?

Accepted Answer

Erie Canal

Question 14

From whom did the United States gain Florida?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 15

What do the lines on the map represent?

Accepted Answer

the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

Question 16

A person who is the first to think of or make something is called ⎯

Accepted Answer

an inventor

Question 17

Which forms of transportation contributed to westward movement between 1801 and 1861?

Accepted Answer

Canals, Steamboats

Question 18

Which of the following would the steam locomotive and the steamboat be linked to?

Accepted Answer

Delivered raw materials to factories

Question 19

Who explored the Louisiana Purchase?

Accepted Answer

Lewis and Clark

Question 20

What was the result of the reaper?

Accepted Answer

Farmers became more productive

Question 21

What did the Louisiana Purchase located at #3 do for the United States?

Accepted Answer

Doubled the size of the United States

Question 22

Which territory is shown, and was gained through a treaty with Great Britain?

Accepted Answer

Oregon

Question 23

What was the belief that expansion was for the good of the country?

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 24

Which invention linked southern plantations to northern industries and Western territories?

Accepted Answer

steamboat

Question 25

What event ended in California & southwest territory becoming part of the United States? (6)?

Accepted Answer

War with Mexico

USI.8a, 8b, 8c, 8d Expansion and Change

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