MCQs of History – West Ward Expansion

Which of the following time periods corressponds to the first major flurry of expansion and the admission of new states?

The earliest settlers of what is now the Midwest generally settled along _____.

_______ were given by the federal government.

Which of the following groups made up the majority of the earliest settlers in the West?

Which of the following best describes the image of the East that most westerners held in the 1820s?

Which of the following groups benefited most from Federalist land policy?

Which of the following groups presented opposition to land speculators during the 1810s and 1820s?

Most farmers who purchased land in the West grew_______.

In 1820, what percentage of the nation’s cotton was produced in Alabama and Mississippi?

Which of the following were reasons for the Panic of 1819?

Which of the following was a main result of high land prices?

Which of the following groups was hurt the most by the Panic of 1819?

Which of the following was a result of the Panic of 1819?

Which of the following tribes was not a member of what the Americans called the five Civilised Tribes?

Which of the following played the largest role in the poor treatment of the Indians?

The effect of the ruling in Worcester v. Georgia was______.

How much did the US pay for the 190 million acres of land it gained from Indian removal between 1832 and 1837?

Which current state most closely approximates the areas which the Indians from east of the Mississippi into by removal?

What was a main reason that roads were an inefficient method of shipping cargo trade?

Which of the following would have taken the longest to float up the Mississippi?

Which of the following eastern cities were two of the first to be connected to the West through railroads?

What proportion of United States citizens lived in places with a population of 2,500 or more 1860?

Which of the following is a main reason that railroads grew quickly during the 1830s and 1840s?

When the Santa Fe Trail was first untilised?

What was the purpose of the mission system?

Which of the following best describes the sentiment of the Mexican government toward the extension of American settlement and trade into the Mexican territories during the 1830s?

Which of the following was a cause for Indians hostility toward the Mexican settlers after the dissolution of the mission system?

How did Stephen F. Austin first become influential in the development Texas?

In what year did Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna purge his government of liberal leaders?

When did Mexico recognise Texan Independence, which the Texas Rebellion had claimed as its ultimate gold?

What was the biggest complaint, american settlers registered about the Mexican government, in the period of settlers before 1830?

Where did the majority of early settlers in California live?

In 1848_______ territories contained more American settlers.

Which of the following items did travellers to the Far West often overstock?

What was the following items did travellers for the failure of the Donner party?

Which of the following was a reason that some settlers choose to settle in Oregon rather than California?

Which of the following was the cornerstone of John Tyler’s campaign for the annexation of Texas?

What was the main reason that John Tyler’s annexation treaty failed in the Senate?

Where was Oregon finally divided between the US and Great Britain?

Which of the following best describes the sentiments of most proponents of Manifest Destiny?