Westward Expansion

1. Homesteading laws were desgined to attract which of the following groups?

Gold miners

Farmers

Trappers

Mountain men

2. The Embargo Act of 1807 mostly hurt?

The Spanish

The French

The British

The Americans

3. Why was NC concerned with the LA Purchase?

They thought the new land would eventually bring an end to slavery

They did not have the money to pay for the new land

It was too much land to gevern

They did not believe in manifest destiny

4. NC had the smallest slave population in the South.

True

False

5. Yeoman is another word for gentry

True

False

6. Which group could be considered as the group the lost the most in the War of 1812?

Native Americans

French

Politicans

British

7. Complete the analogy Manifest Destiny:_______________ 13 colonies : Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Mississippi River

Missouri River

8. Who was sent to explore the LA territory in 1804?

Andrew Jackson/James Madison

Lewis/Clark

Washington/Franklin

Adams/Franklin

9. Who saved valuable documents during the War of 1812?

James Madison

Dolley Madison

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

10. What popular trail did most settlers take that moved them to the West?

Pacific Trail

Lewis Trail

Oregon Trail

Jefferson Trail

11. The Great Wagon Road was the Central pathway that most settlers used from 1735-1775 in the Southern US.

True

False

12. Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence _______________: US Constitution

John Adams

George Washington

Ben Franklin

James Madison

13. What purpose does the Electoral College serve?

Elects the President of the US

Appoints memebrs of Congress

Appoints judges in the Supreme Court

Elects the people of the US to general elections

14. The LA purchase...?

Included all the territory east of the Mississippi River

Tripled the size of the US

Stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Doubled the size of the US

15. Why was the War of 1812 known as the "War for Second Independence"?

The war was fought with the French

The war was fought against the British again- if the US lost, we could have been colonies again

No importance to this name at all, James Madison just called it this for memorial purposes

16. What document does the US Constitution build upon?

Declaration of Independence

Warsaw Pact

14 Points

Treaty of Paris

17. Which cause of the War of 1812 does not belong?

Impressment of US Sailors

Blockade of American Ships by the French and the British

War Hawks in Congress who were eager to go to war with England

Dolley Madison burning the White House

18. How did the War of 1812 greatly help the American economy?

The US made own goods and items since trade difficulties occurred with embargo and blockades

James Madison encouraged trade with the other nations of the world after the war

Native Americans gave up fighting with the US people and the economy began to grow

Thomas Jefferson sent the French out of the nation

19. President Thomas Jefferson was concerned about the LA Purchase because?

The new government could not afford the purchase of 15 million

The Constitution did not say anything about the president's right to purchase land

Spain was threatening to declare war on the US over the territory

France would kick the US off the land and contol the whole region

20. Which of the following is an example of impressment?

Refusing to trade with other foregin nations

Ordering Americans to obey trade restrictions

Kidnappping US sailors to work on British ships

Forming alliances with foreign powers