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The Santa Fe and Oregon are examples of ____ that improved as more travelers used them and gained new knowledge of the dangers along the way.
a) overland trails
b) canals
c) new transportation
d) forts

What made travel across New York using water cheaper and easier?
a) The Erie Canal
b) The Hudson Bay
c) The Isthmus of Panama
d) The Gulf of Mexico

Which of the following is NOT an example of cheaper faster transportation?
a) canals
b) steamboat
c) steam locomotive
d) automobiles

Use of the Oregon and Santa Fe trails is an example of how ___ allowed more people to move west.
a) Steamboats and Railroads
b) the belief in Manifest Destiny
c) cheap, fertile land
d) increased knowledge of overland trails

People moved west because ___.
a) taxes were getting too high in the east
b) they could get cheap, fertile land
c) they did not like living on the coast
d) the land was too fertile in the east

What was not one of the ECONOMIC factors people moved west for?
a) gold
b) steamboats and locomotives
c) farming and logging
d) economic opportunity for runaway slaves

The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the God-given right of the country is known as ___.
a) God's Plan
b) Expansionism
c) Migratory Fate
d) Manifest Destiny

Westward migration was influenced by what two factors?
a) culture and geography
b) economics and topography
c) geography and economic opportunity
d) archaeology and human resources

_____ in the EAST caused people to move west.
a) population growth/crowding
b) economic opportunity
c) cheaper, faster transportation
d) belief in Manifest Destiny

Which of the following is not a reason for Westward Expansion?
a) improved transportation and knowledge of trails
b) the belief in Manifest Destiny
c) economic opportunities and the availability of cheap fertile land
d) population growth in the West

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