Westward Expansion

Question 1

Daniel Boone

Answer 1

cleared a trail through Cumberland Gap

Question 2

Lewis and Clark

Answer 2

explored the west reading the Pacific Ocean

Question 3

Sacagawea

Answer 3

interpreter for Lewis and Clark

Question 4

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 4

bought the Louisiana Purchase and sent Lewis and Clark on their expedition

Question 5

Andrew Jackson

Answer 5

supported the Indian Removal Act

Question 6

General Santa Anna

Answer 6

Mexican leader at the Alamo

Question 7

Samuel Morose

Answer 7

inventor of the telegraph

Question 8

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 8

signed the Pacific Railroad Act

Question 9

Brigham Young

Answer 9

Mormon leader seeing religious freedom

Question 10

49ers

Answer 10

rushed to California in search of gold

Question 11

Seminoles

Answer 11

fought the U.S. for their land in Florida

Question 12

John L. O’Sullivan

Answer 12

first mentioned Manifest Destiny

Question 13

Oregon Trail

Answer 13

mostly for people looking for Manifest Destiny (belief U.S. should extend from Atlantic to Pacific coasts, better land, escape hardships)

Question 14

Santa Fe Trail

Answer 14

the earliest trail mostly for trade, moving cattle, and military

Question 15

Mormon Trail

Answer 15

mostly used to find religious freedom

Question 16

California Trail

Answer 16

mostly used by 49ers in search of gold

Question 17

Seminole Wars

Answer 17

The United States battled with the Seminole people mainly over Florida land

Question 18

Indian Removal Act

Answer 18

a law to move indigenous peoples from the southeast to west of the Mississippi River

Question 19

Battle of the Alamo

Answer 19

General Santa Anna from Mexico battled with Texan citizens and won

Question 20

Trail of Tears

Answer 20

the difficult journey indigenous peoples took when they were forced off their land

Question 21

Oregon Treaty

Answer 21

it settles a land dispute between the United States and Great Britain. Great Britain gave up the land

Question 22

Mexican-American War

Answer 22

a war fought over the land in Texas

Question 23

Gold Rush

Answer 23

the beginning of people rushing to explore California when gold was discovered

Question 24

Pony Express

Answer 24

riders traveled the trails delivering news and mail

Question 25

Telegraph

Answer 25

an invention of an electric line that sends signals for communication

Question 26

Pacific Railroad Act

Answer 26

a law funding a railroad across the west

Question 27

Homestead Act

Answer 27

a law giving citizens free land in the west

Question 28

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 28

connected the U.S. from east to west