FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GRADE

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FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GRADE

7 - UNIT 7 EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -10 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation

Question 1: Manifest Destiny

Answer:

A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 2: Transcontinental Railroad

Answer:

A railroad system that crossed the continental United States.

Question 3: Trail of Tears

Answer:

An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory which resulted in death of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people.

Question 4: Homestead Act

Answer:

A 1862 law by Congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government-owned land to small farmers.

Question 5: Erie Canal

Answer:

A canal that runs from Albany to Buffalo, New York that was completed in 1825.

Question 6: Gadsden Purchase

Answer:

The United States purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 that included the southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico.

Question 7: Oregon Trail

Answer:

A 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory.

Question 8: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer:

A 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.

Question 9: Indian Removal Act

Answer:

A 1830 law by Congress that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.

Question 10: Louisiana Purchase

Answer:

The United States purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States.