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Alamo, Gold Rush, Oregon Trail. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What were people who arrived to hunt for gold called?
a) Forty-Niners
b) California Gold Diggers
c) Gold Hunter
d) American Gold Miner

What were mining camps called during the California Gold Rush?
a) ghost towns
b) boom towns
c) mining towns
d) gold towns

What did mining camps become when people abandoned them?
a) ghost towns
b) boom towns
c) mining towns
d) gold towns

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 killed many settlers along the Oregon Trail?
a) Native Americans
b) French Soldiers
c) cholera
d) small pox

During the Battle of the Alamo, Texas was apart of which country?
a) America
b) Spain
c) Mexico
d) France

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

Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
a) Native Americans
b) Mexico
c) Texans
d) America

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 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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