Westward Expansion Trivia
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
When Texas was annexed in 1845, did its new state constitution permit or prohibit slavery?
Slave state
In 1832, after Worcester v. Georgia affirmed Cherokee sovereignty, which president refused to enforce the ruling?
Andrew Jackson
Expecting a brief portage between the Missouri and Columbia, Lewis and Clark instead crossed which mountain range?
Rockies
Blazed in 1846 as a southern alternative to the Oregon Trail, the Applegate Trail crossed which arid state southwest from Idaho before turning toward Oregon?
Nevada
On the eastern leg of the Transcontinental Railroad, besides Civil War veterans, which immigrant group made up most of the Union Pacific workforce?
Irish immigrants