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Westward Expansion
Test Description: Alamo, Gold Rush, Oregon Trail
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What were people who arrived to hunt for gold called?
A
Gold Hunter
B
California Gold Diggers
C
American Gold Miner
D
Forty-Niners
2) What were mining camps called during the California Gold Rush?
A
ghost towns
B
gold towns
C
mining towns
D
boom towns
3) What did mining camps become when people abandoned them?
A
gold towns
B
boom towns
C
mining towns
D
ghost towns
4) What did the settlers ride in when traveling west?
A
horse and carriage
B
a car
C
a ship
D
a covered wagon pulled by an oxen
5) What killed many settlers along the Oregon Trail?
A
French Soldiers
B
Native Americans
C
small pox
D
cholera
6) During the Battle of the Alamo, Texas was apart of which country?
A
America
B
France
C
Mexico
D
Spain
7) What was the law called that forced Native Americans to move from their homes to land in Oklahoma?
A
Native American Act
B
Jackson Act
C
Moving Act
D
Indian Removal Act
8) Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
A
Mexico
B
America
C
Texans
D
Native Americans
9) Who was the general leading the US troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A
General Cherokee
B
General Smith
C
General Jackson
D
General Custer
10) Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
A
Andrew Jackson
B
General Custer
C
William Clarke
D
Francis Scott Key
11) Who was the President when the White House burned?
A
President Washington
B
President Lewis
C
President Jackson
D
President Madison
12) Who led Mexico's forces at the Battle of the Alamo?
A
General Lewis
B
General Custer
C
General Santa Anna
D
General Madison
13) What was the method that people used to separate dirt and gold?
A
digging
B
panning
C
mining
D
using a metal detector
14) Who was the US facing during the War of 1812?
A
Native Americans
B
Spain
C
Great Britain
D
Mexico
15) Who were the two leaders of the expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
A
Lewis and Jackson
B
Lewis and Clark
C
Clark and Custer
D
Lewis and Custer
16) Who served as an interpreter to the expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
A
Sacagawea
B
Charbonneau
C
Custer
D
Seaman
17) What was the purpose of the expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
A
to search for gold
B
to remove Native Americans
C
to find areas to build homes
D
to explore the new land
18) Whose portrait did Dolley Madison save?
A
Thomas Jefferson
B
Benjamin Franklin
C
George Washington
D
Abraham Lincoln
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