Westward Expansion Question Preview (ID: 46122)


Inventions, Gold Rush, Compromises, Fugitive Slave Act. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

The purchase of Louisiana Territory was important for the future of Westward Expansion because?
a) gave the U.S. more power and land
b) Allowed us to become friends with the French
c) doubled the size of the U.S. and opened Westward Expansion
d) Opened up westward expansion and got the U.S. out of debt

Which inventions had the least impact on production and trade of the U.S.?
a) Cotton Gin
b) Steam Boat
c) Transcontinental Railroad
d) Stage Coach

What is the BIGGEST Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
a) Connected the West and East coast of the U.S. so people could travel west
b) Allowed cheaper travel rates
c) opened jobs
d) allowed people to visit one another

All the following were part of the gold rush EXCEPT?
a) British
b) Chinese
c) Irish
d) Mexicans

Why did the North (free states) worry about Missouri becoming a state?
a) More land was granted to the slave states
b) slave states would secede from the North
c) the south would have more slave states, making them have more power in the Senate
d) they wanted the same amount of free and slave states

What is the name of the (MASON-DIXON LINE) that was supposed to separate the free states and slave states?
a) 36-30
b) 30-36
c) 30-30
d) 36-36

All of the Following were part of the Compromise of 1850 except?
a) California would enter the Union as a Free State
b) Slave trade would stop in Washington D.C.
c) Selling and trading of slaves would stop
d) Fugitive Slave Law was passed to help return runaway slaves to their rightful owners

All were part of the Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) EXCEPT?
a) the Senate became unbalanced
b) Missouri Entered the state as a Slave State
c) Maine entered as a Free State
d) Remainder of the Louisiana Purchase, Slave states below the Mason-Dixon line and Free states above

Fugitive
a) A person who has escaped a place and or in hiding so they do not have to face consequences
b) A person that is searching for freedom
c) A slave
d) A person who is searching for a runaway slave or prisoner

Fugitive Slave Act required people to do what?
a) help assist slaves to freedom
b) All people had to help return slaves that had run away
c) the North had to return Slaves
d) the South had to return slaves

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