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Covers Reasons For US Expansion West And Conflicts. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

The belief that the United States need to spread democracy and their culture across the continent.
a) Manifest Destiny
b) American Progress
c) Expanding Democracy
d)

What were positive effects of westward expansion?
a) Removal of Native Americans to reservations
b) Advancements in technology and transportation
c) War with Mexico
d)

What were negative effects of westward expansion
a) Advancements in technology and transporation
b) Exploration of new lands
c) Indian Removal Act and War with Mexico
d)

What land purchase doubled the size of the US?
a) The Canadian Purchase
b) The Mexican Purchase
c) The Louisiana Purchase
d)

What did the Lousiana Purchase start?
a) Westward expansion
b) The Mexican-American War
c) The Oregon Annexation
d)

Who hired to explore and map new territory in the west?
a) Jackson and Jefferson
b) Lewis and Clark
c) Adams and Clark
d)

Who was the Native American that saved the Lewis and Clark expedition?
a) Sacagawea
b) Sequoah
c) Tecumseh
d)

What started the war of 1812?
a) Texas broke away from Mexico and wanted to be part of the United States.
b) British were impressing US citizens and supplying the Natives with weapons
c) Americans wanted Native American lands in the South
d)

What song was written during the War of 1812?
a) From Sea to Shining Sea
b) America the Beautiful
c) Star Spangled Banner
d)

Who emerged as a war hero during the War of 1812?
a) Andrew Jackson
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) Lewis Clark
d)

What was the law that forced Native Americans from their lands in the South?
a) The Native Reservation Act
b) The Indian Removal Act
c) The Forced March Act
d)

What was the Indian Removal Act Passed
a) Americans wanted Native lands for farming on and because gold was found.
b) Americans wanted to move Natives back to their ancestral homelands.
c) Americans wanted the Natives to have a place to practice their culture
d)

What happened because of the Mexican-American war?
a) Mexico gained Lousiana
b) US purchased Florida
c) US gained the lands west of the Rocky Mountains.
d)

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