Westward Expansion Trivia
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Along the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail from the Missouri River to Oregon and California, pioneers primarily traveled in which cardinal direction?
West
In 1832, after Worcester v. Georgia affirmed Cherokee sovereignty, which president refused to enforce the ruling?
Andrew Jackson
When Texas was annexed in 1845, did its new state constitution permit or prohibit slavery?
Slave state
In May 1804, the Corps of Discovery set out from Camp Dubois near St. Louis, heading upstream on which river?
Missouri River
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