Westward Expansion Question Preview (ID: 40518)
Alamo, Gold Rush, Oregon Trail.
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Who was the general leading the US troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
a) General Jackson
b) General Custer
c) General Cherokee
d) General Smith
Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
a) Native Americans
b) Mexico
c) Texans
d) America
What was the law called that forced Native Americans to move from their homes to land in Oklahoma?
a) Moving Act
b) Jackson Act
c) Native American Act
d) Indian Removal Act
During the Battle of the Alamo, Texas was apart of which country?
a) America
b) Spain
c) Mexico
d) France
What killed many settlers along the Oregon Trail?
a) Native Americans
b) French Soldiers
c) cholera
d) small pox
What did the settlers ride in when traveling west?
a) horse and carriage
b) a ship
c) a covered wagon pulled by an oxen
d) a car
What did mining camps become when people abandoned them?
a) ghost towns
b) boom towns
c) mining towns
d) gold towns
What were mining camps called during the California Gold Rush?
a) ghost towns
b) boom towns
c) mining towns
d) gold towns
What were people who arrived to hunt for gold called?
a) Forty-Niners
b) California Gold Diggers
c) Gold Hunter
d) American Gold Miner
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
a) William Clarke
b) Andrew Jackson
c) General Custer
d) Francis Scott Key
Who was the President when the White House burned?
a) President Washington
b) President Madison
c) President Jackson
d) President Lewis
Who led Mexico's forces at the Battle of the Alamo?
a) General Custer
b) General Madison
c) General Lewis
d) General Santa Anna
What was the method that people used to separate dirt and gold?
a) mining
b) panning
c) digging
d) using a metal detector
Who was the US facing during the War of 1812?
a) Spain
b) Great Britain
c) Mexico
d) Native Americans
Who were the two leaders of the expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
a) Lewis and Custer
b) Lewis and Jackson
c) Lewis and Clark
d) Clark and Custer
Who served as an interpreter to the expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
a) Charbonneau
b) Sacagawea
c) Seaman
d) Custer
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
Whose portrait did Dolley Madison save?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) George Washington
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) Benjamin Franklin
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